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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface to the Revised Edition | |
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| The Aboriginal Waterscape: Manipulation and Near Harmony | |
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| The Waterscape | |
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| Waterways and Lifeways | |
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| Agriculture and Cultural Patterns | |
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| Symbiosis and Community | |
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| Hispanic Patterns: Community and Authority | |
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| "Apportion Water Justly and Fairly" | |
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| Lessons in Survival | |
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| Misjudgments | |
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| Royal Authority and Community Rights | |
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| Community Obligations | |
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| Community Rights and Private Rights | |
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| When Rights Collide: Bien Procumunal | |
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| The Darker Side | |
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| The American Takeover: Laissez-Faire, Localism, and Monopoly | |
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| American Political Culture | |
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| "First in Time, First in Right" | |
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| Hydraulicking and Environmental Destruction | |
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| The Politics of Flood Control | |
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| Riparian Rights | |
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| Monopoly and a Clash of Rights | |
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| Lux v. Haggin and the California Doctrine | |
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| The Irrigation District and the Persistence of Monopoly | |
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| Localism and the Search for Alternatives | |
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| The Rainmakers | |
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| The Progressive Impulse: From Laissez-Faire to Centralized Planning | |
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| Toward the Reclamation Act | |
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| Urban Imperialism: A Tale of Two Cities | |
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| Los Angeles: From Hispanic Village to American City | |
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| Legerdemain and the Pueblo Water Right | |
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| Girding for Expansion: Municipal Control | |
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| The Owens Valley Caper | |
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| An Aqueduct for the Future | |
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| The San Fernando Valley: Insider Information for Private Gain | |
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| Los Angeles's Water Colonies | |
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| The Tragedy and Legacy of the Expert: William Mulholland | |
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| San Francisco: Instant City with an Instant Water Problem | |
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| Hetch Hetchy Predicaments: The Federal Government and Boss Ruef | |
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| Hetch Hetchy Embattled | |
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| Toward a Utilitarian Triumph | |
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| The Ironies of Victory | |
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| A Comparison of Two Cities | |
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| Hydraulic Society Triumphant: The Great Projects | |
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| The Boulder Canyon Project | |
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| The Imperial Valley Impulse | |
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| The Colorado River Compact | |
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| New Players and New Battles | |
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| Compromises and Enactment | |
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| The Imperial Valley and the Betrayal of Reclamation Law | |
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| New Water and Accelerated Urbanization | |
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| The Central Valley Project | |
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| Progressive Era Promise and Disappointment | |
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| Toward a State Plan | |
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| American Political Culture and the Central Valley Project | |
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| From State to Federal Project | |
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| A Project at Last | |
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| The Battle over Acreage Limitation | |
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| "Technical Compliance": A Bipartisan Legacy | |
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| Public versus Private Power | |
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| The State Water Project | |
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| A State Plan | |
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| Fragmentation, Compromise, and Confusion | |
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| New Water, Growth, and Inequities | |
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| Hydraulic Society on the Defensive | |
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| Arizona v. California | |
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| The Environmental Movement | |
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| The Peripheral Canal Fight: Round One | |
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| The Peripheral Canal Fight: Round Two | |
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| The Pueblo Water Right Challenged | |
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| Mono Lake and the Public Trust Doctrine | |
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| Owens Valley War: Renewed and Cooled But Not Over | |
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| The Fight for the Right to Instream Use | |
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| An Increasingly Vulnerable Southland | |
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| Water Policy at a Crossroads | |
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| Tradition versus Reform: The Fate of the Stanislaus River | |
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| New and Old Challenges to Dams and Levees | |
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| Dams at Risk | |
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| The Impermanence of Dams: Earthquakes, Silt, Neglect, and Flawed Planning | |
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| Los Angeles: A Vexing Lesson in Dams, Levees, Floods, and Public Policy | |
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| Vulnerable Levees and the Delta | |
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| Environmental Crisis: Bay, Delta, and CALFED | |
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| Environmental Crisis: Central Valley | |
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| Environmental Crisis: Southern California | |
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| Subsidized Agriculture and Social Inequity | |
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| Water Marketing: Hope, Threat, and Challenge | |
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| The Imperial Valley, MWD, and the Market | |
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| The Imperial Valley, MWD, San Diego, and the Market | |
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| The Wheeling-Rate War: MWD and San Diego | |
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| The Governor Intercedes | |
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| One War Down, Another to Go | |
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| The Central Valley Project, "Reform," and the Market | |
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| MWD, the San Joaquin Valley, and the Market | |
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| The Quest for Security and Equity | |
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| Open Spaces and Farmland: Going, Going,... | |
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| A Confusion of Laws | |
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| Chaotic Management | |
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| Calls for Reform, Fanciful and Otherwise | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |