Warigia Bowman
Warigia Bowman grew up in New Mexico, the daughter of an African immigrant, and an American from the Appalachias. Warigia believes that her exposure to many cultures and ways of life provides her a unique vantage point as an academic. Warigia's research focuses on energy, the environment, water, natural resources, telecommunications, rural development, African politics, and on the intersection between science and technology and politics. She is particularly interested in the countries of East Africa, and the countries along the White Nile. Other research interests include civil society, democratization, and science and technology.
Warigia attended Columbia College undergrad, where she was a Harry S. Truman Scholar. She received graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and earned her doctorate from Harvard University in 2009.
Supervisors: Sheila Jasanoff, L. Jean Camp, and James Galbraith
Phone: 501-683-5227
Address: University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service
Sturgis Hall
1200 President Clinton Ave.
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone 501-683-5200
Warigia attended Columbia College undergrad, where she was a Harry S. Truman Scholar. She received graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and earned her doctorate from Harvard University in 2009.
Supervisors: Sheila Jasanoff, L. Jean Camp, and James Galbraith
Phone: 501-683-5227
Address: University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service
Sturgis Hall
1200 President Clinton Ave.
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone 501-683-5200
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The High Plains Aquifer provides a significant amount of America’s agricultural irrigation, and is a primary source of drinking water for Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. This article argues that policymakers should slow the current rapid rate of aquifer depletion by reducing groundwater use through a combination of changes to irrigation technology, crop choice, consumer behavior, legal doctrine, and legislation.
This article recommends specific legislative and legal solutions. First, the 2020 Farm Bill should expand water conservation incentives through voluntary metering and withdrawal limits, improved irrigation equipment investments, and high-water crop subsidy eliminations. Second, policymakers should promote long-term planning through doctrinal changes, including changing the ‘safe yield’ time horizon from decades to centuries. Third, Congress should empanel a National Aquifer Commission to spearhead collective management of this precious resource. Fourth, state and federal entities should coordinate information gathering and reporting on groundwater depletion. Finally, agencies should impose groundwater withdrawal limits in regions facing high depletion rates.
roughout this report, we center on questions about the role of the crowdsourcing initiative Uchaguzi. is inquiry examines technical challenges, the organization’s ability to catalyze responses to reports of violence, the organization’s connection with the media establishment and the wider public as well as Uchaguzi’s overall role in strengthening electoral transparency and accountability.
To address these questions, we employed mixed methods involving both qualitative and quantitative analyses as well as eld methods and desk research. Data collection focused on review of documentary sources in addition to collection of both qualitative and quantitative data. Empirical and qualitative sources included fourteen semi-structured qualitative interviews with founders, designers, and implementers. We also conducted a short survey to assess citizens’ familiarity with Uchaguzi, reaching a total of 446 people and covering most regions in Kenya.