Dam Nation How Water Shaped the West and Will Determine Its Future

Name: Dam Nation How Water Shaped the West and Will Determine Its Future
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ISBN: 9780762787623

ISBN-10: 0762787627

ISBN-13: 9780762787623

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Authors: Stephen Grace

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In the scramble to claim water rights in the West during the fevered days of early emigration and expansion, running out of water was rarely a concern, and the dam building fever that transformed the West in the 19th and 20th centuries created a map of the region that may be unsustainable. Throughout the arid American West, metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver need water. These cities are growing, but water supplies are dwindling. Scientists agree that the West is heating up and drying out, leading to future water shortages that will pose a challenge to existing laws. Dam Nationlooks first to the past, to the stories of the California gold rush and the…

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List price: $21.95
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 5/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Author's Note


Introduction: Trouble



Into the Parched Frontier



Settling the Great American Desert



Reclamation



The Law of the River



Dam Nation



What We Have Lost



When Dams Fall



The Wealth Below



The New Normal



Tainted Waters



Silt, Salt, and Civilization



Water in the Twenty-First-Century West


Epilogue: A Brief History of Water's Future


Acknowledgments


Sources


Index


About the Author