Water and the California Dream Choices for the New Millennium

Name: Water and the California Dream Choices for the New Millennium
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ISBN: 9781578050956

ISBN-10: 1578050952

ISBN-13: 9781578050956

Edition: 2003

Authors: David Carle

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In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life. The key to this transformation has been expanded access to water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. "Whoever brings the water, brings the people," wrote engineer William Mulholland, under whose leadership the process of growth through irrigation began. Now, in this provocative book, author David Carle contends that it may be time to stop drowning the California dream of the good life with imported water. Using oral histories, newspaper articles, and autobiographies, Carle explores the historic changes in California, showing how…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Changes and Choices



Frontierland to Fantasyland



In Grizzly Days



Save the Cows ... Horses Off the Cliffs



Gold Fever: Sick Forefathers



Statehood, State Hoods, and State Laws



R & R: Railroads and Real Estate, Citrus and Sunshine



Water Choices (1)--Eastern Sierra Water



Melodrama on the Right Side of California



Life in the Big City--How Did They Get Away with It?



Did They See Where They Were Going?



What If the Los Angeles Aqueduct Had Never Been Built?



Water Choices (2)--Colorado River Water



"And Lest Our City Shrivel and Die ..."



Boom! Postwar, Postaqueduct Arrivals



People Fumes: Just Don't Inhale



Water Choices (3)--Northern California Water



The Northern End of the Pipe



Too Much Is Not Enough



Sprawling Gridlock



Tomorrowland



Today's Choice (1): Who Needs Farms?



Today's Choice (2): The Environment--Has Mono Lake Really Been Saved?



Visualizing Tomorrow--Just Say No to Water?


Bibliography


Index