AquaPedia:Types of Background Articles

Four types of Background articles are currently available to AquaPedia: Water Features, Riparians, Water Projects, and Agreements. The purpose of these articles is to collect common information that relates to specific water features, projects, or agreements in central locations.

Because multiple cases can require an understanding of the same basic facts about

• riparians, the states adjacent to a water source and central to a conflict;
• water features such as a basin (watershed), minor rivers, lakes, groundwater resources, etc;
• projects, such as built infrastructure or organizational initiatives (such as a commission); and
• agreements and treaties

each case can be linked to new or existing articles containing background information on these topics. This way, individual riparians, natural features, projects and initiatives, or agreements do not need to be explained in great detail in the body of every case.