CSI: Day Seven Agenda

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CSI Day Seven Agenda

• Terri R. Hebert
• The University of Texas at Tyler
• thebert_at_mail.uttyl.edu

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Water Bill of Rights

• Continue work on group
• projects
• Make group presentations to larger
• group
• Discussions of pertinence of activity

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Water Bill of Rights

• http//www.tceq.state.tx.us/assets/public/comm_exe
  c/pubs/archive/gi228/index.html
• Surface Water Rights in TexasHow They Work and
  What to Do When They Don't

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Water Bill of Rights

• http//www.texaswatermatters.org/about_us_matters.
  htm
• Why should water matter to you?

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Water Bill of Rights

• http//www.texaswater.org/water/law/default.htm
• Texas Water Law

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Pass the Jug

• To stimulate and analyze
• different water rights
• policies and to learn how water
• availability and peoples proximity to
• the resource influence how water is
• allocated.

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Pass the Jug

• What is purpose of water
• rights?
• Allows a person, business, community, or other
  group to use a specified amount of water.
• Provides an organized and systematic way to
  allocate water.
• What is the history of water rights?

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Pass the Jug

• What is the history of
• water rights?
• Riparian Rights or Common-Law Doctrine gives
  people who own land bordering a water source the
  right to use that water however they choose.
• More recent version requires people to justify
  their uses as reasonable, as well as ensuring
  that land owners downstream have their fair share
  of water.

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Pass the Jug

• What is the history of
• water rights?
• West of the Mississippi Prior Appropriation
  Doctrine regulates water rights by maintaining
  first come, first served, or first in time is
  first in right.

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Pass the Jug

• What is the history of
• water rights?
• Exceptions include federal and tribal reserved
  water rights, created to provide adequate water
  for lands owned by the federal government and
  Native American nations.

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Pass the Jug

• How can we meet the
• growing demands of future
• centuries?
• Water rights transfers
• Water rights changes
• Water marketing
• Water leasing

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CSI Day Nine Agenda

• Terri R. Hebert
• The University of Texas at Tyler
• thebert_at_mail.uttyl.edu

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Hot Water

• Utilizing debating strategies,
• students will learn how to
• present a valid argument regarding a
• water-related issue.

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Question/AnswerPeriod

• As you prepare for the
• students to arrive, are
• there any thoughts, concerns,
• questions that you must state before
• moving on the next phase?
• In the process of ongoing education of
• teachers, the essential moment is that of
  critical
• reflection on ones practice. Thinking critically
• about practice, of today or yesterday, makes
• possible the improvement of tomorrows practice
• (Freire, p. 44).

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Concluding Thought

• The streams of relationships
• flow together with the streams of
• purposes in a school to help form a river of
• leadership (Donaldson, p. 48).