Most contested infrastructure in the Southern Hemisphere. Southern Compact controls the southern flow gates. SCA controls the northern intake. Neither can make the dam do anything significant without the other's cooperation. Joint management agreement expires 2069.
Most contested infrastructure in the Southern Hemisphere. Southern Compact controls the southern flow gates. SCA controls the northern intake. Neither can make the dam do anything significant without the other's cooperation. Joint management agreement expires 2069. Both sides are already positioning for the renewal.
Built in the twentieth century, damaged in the climate wars of the 2030s, rebuilt under joint Compact-SCA management in 2049 as the cornerstone of the water-sharing agreement making Compact independence viable.
The Compact controls southern flow gates. SCA controls northern intake systems. Neither can act unilaterally without immediately alienating the other — which has been the point for fifteen years.
The joint management agreement expires in 2069. Both parties are negotiating renewal using the 80-year aquifer viability figure. If the 40-year projection becomes known before renewal, the negotiating framework collapses and both sides default to pressure tactics. The dam's seabed contains a second diversion structure nobody built on record.