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Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Owens River Basin, 7 Hydroelectric Projects written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Hydropower Licensing
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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Owens River Basin written by United States. Office of Hydropower Licensing and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary D. Libecap
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804753807
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Owens Valley Revisited written by Gary D. Libecap and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the contemporary West, pressures to more effectively reallocate water to meet growing urban and environmental demands are increasing as environmental awareness grows and climate change threatens existing water supplies. The legacy of Owens Valley raises concerns about how reallocation can occur. Although it took place over seventy years ago, the water transfer from Owens Valley to Los Angeles still plays an important role in perceptions of how water markets work. The memory of Owens Valley transfer is one of theft and environmental destruction at the hands of Los Angeles. In reassessing the infamous transfer, one could say that there was no "theft." Owens Valley landowners fared well in their land and water sales, earning more than if they had stayed in agriculture. In another sense, however, "theft" did occur. The water was not literally stolen, but there was a sharp imbalance in gains from the trade--with most of the benefits going to Los Angeles. Owens Valley, then, demonstrates the importance of distributional issues in water trades when the stakes are large. Los Angeles water rights in the Owens Valley and Mono Basin have again been a front-page issue since 1970. New environmental and recreational values and air pollution concerns have ushered in demands to curtail the shipment of water from source regions for urban use. Owen's Valley Revisited: A Reassesment of the West's First Great Water Transfer carefully explores how these sagas were addressed, considering the costs involved, and alternative approaches that might have resulted in more rapid and less contentious remedies. This analysis offers insights to guide the ongoing conversation about water politics and the future thereof. .
Author : United States. Office of Hydropower Licensing
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Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book Owens River Basin written by United States. Office of Hydropower Licensing and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarence A. Hall
Publisher : University of California White Mountain Research Station
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The History of Water written by Clarence A. Hall and published by University of California White Mountain Research Station. This book was released on 1992 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1110 pages
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Download or read book Water-supply Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin L. Blevins
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Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book Owens Valley, California written by Melvin L. Blevins and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140178241
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Cadillac Desert written by Marc Reisner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage. This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.
Author : William L. Kahrl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520907418
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Water and Power written by William L. Kahrl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-11-08 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not the purpose of this work to propose a specific format for the settlement of the city's current difficulties with the valley, to resolve the environmental questions associated with Los Angeles's proposed groundwater pumping program, or to promote any cause associated with the developing situation in the Owens Valley. But by performing the essential historical task of separating what happened from what did not, and by distinguishing in this way the choices which have been made from those which have yet to be decided, it is my hope that this effort will help to establish that common basis for understanding which is essential for the debate over specific issues to proceed most effectively. This book, then, is scarcely the last word on the Owens Valley conflict: the final chapter, after all, has yet to be written. The story that has emerged here is at once very different and more troubling than the conventional treatments of the conflict as a simplistic political morality play. Any attempt to deal with so controversial a subject, however, is almost certain to spark controversy itself. For that reason, with the exception of a small collection of private letters, this work is constructed entirely from the published documents and other materials available to the general public, anchoring the narrative in sources the reader can consult to trace the line of my argument on any point with which he or she may disagree. In addition, the work as a whole has been reviewed for technical accuracy by officials of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, although the department is in no way responsible for the content of this study or the conclusions drawn from it.
Author : Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of Water and Power
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Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book Increased Pumping of the Owens Valley Groundwater Basin written by Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of Water and Power and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Wehrey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738595934
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book The Owens Valley written by Jane Wehrey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Owens Valley is a bold and beautiful land where rugged alpine peaks tower over the deep trough of high desert that John Muir called "a country of wonderful contrasts." Inhabiting a rich and complex past are native people, miners, cattlemen, farmers, and city builders who laid claim, often violently, to its resources. By 1913, Owens River water was flowing south through the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and from the long and bitter conflicts that followed emerged an Owens Valley future far removed from the agrarian Eden envisioned by 19th-century pioneers. Today, unparalleled recreational opportunities draw millions of visitors annually to this "long brown land" even as reminders of a quintessential Western past linger in its open vistas, epic landscape, and enduring traditions.
Author : W. F. Hardt
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Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Review of Hydrologic Information for Adequacy in Developing a Water Management Plan in the Owens Valley, Southern California written by W. F. Hardt and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735216096
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Where the Water Goes written by David Owen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
Author : Linda S. Rogers
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Overview of Water Resources in Owens Valley, California written by Linda S. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Instream Flow and Habitat Restoration Investigations for the Upper Owens River, Mono County, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don Jackson Kinsey
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Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book The Water Trail written by Don Jackson Kinsey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of Water and Power
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Total Pages : 166 pages
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Download or read book Final Environmental Impact Report on Increased Pumping of the Owens Valley Groundwater Basin written by Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of Water and Power and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
