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Author : Frank Elwin Weymouth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Relation of the Colorado River Aqueduct to the Development of the West written by Frank Elwin Weymouth and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : April R. Summitt
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322110
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Contested Waters written by April R. Summitt and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To fully understand this river and its past, one must examine many separate pieces of history scattered throughout two nations--seven states within the United States and two within Mexico--and sort through a large amount of scientific data. One needs to be part hydrologist, geologist, economist, sociologist, anthropologist, and historian to fully understand the entire story. Despite this river's narrow size and meager flow, its tale is very large indeed." -From the conclusion The Colorado River is a vital resource to urban and agricultural communities across the Southwest, providing water to 30 million people. Contested Waters tells the river's story-a story of conquest, control, division, and depletion. Beginning in prehistory and continuing into the present day, Contested Waters focuses on three important and often overlooked aspects of the river's use: the role of western water law in its over-allocation, the complexity of power relationships surrounding the river, and the concept of sustainable use and how it has been either ignored or applied in recent times. It is organized in two parts, the first addresses the chronological history of the river and long-term issues, while the second examines in more detail four specific topics: metropolitan perceptions, American Indian water rights, US-Mexico relations over the river, and water marketing issues. Creating a complete picture of the evolution of this crucial yet over-utilized resource, this comprehensive summary will fascinate anyone interested in the Colorado River or the environmental history of the Southwest.
Author : Frank Elwin Weymouth
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Relation of the Colorado River Aqueduct to California Industries written by Frank Elwin Weymouth and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594633770
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)
Download or read book Where the Water Goes written by David Owen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Colorado River is a crucial 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"--Amazon.com.
Author : Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Great Aqueduct written by Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lieutenant Joseph C.Ives
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Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report upon the Colorado River of the West written by Lieutenant Joseph C.Ives and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520205642
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book A River No More written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-09-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California. Ever increasing demands on the river to supply cities in the desert render this new edition all too timely. Philip Fradkin has updated this valuable book with a new preface.
Author : Reuel Leslie Olson
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Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Colorado River Compact written by Reuel Leslie Olson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Kuhn
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816540438
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Science Be Dammed written by Eric Kuhn and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management—and perils in the mismanagement—of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evidence was available that the Colorado River could not sustain ambitious dreaming and planning by decision-makers throughout the twentieth century, river planners and political operatives irresponsibly made the least sustainable and most dangerous long-term decisions. Arguing that the science of the early twentieth century can shed new light on the mistakes at the heart of the over-allocation of the Colorado River, authors Eric Kuhn and John Fleck delve into rarely reported early studies, showing that scientists warned as early as the 1920s that there was not enough water for the farms and cities boosters wanted to build. Contrary to a common myth that the authors of the Colorado River Compact did the best they could with limited information, Kuhn and Fleck show that development boosters selectively chose the information needed to support their dreams, ignoring inconvenient science that suggested a more cautious approach. Today water managers are struggling to come to terms with the mistakes of the past. Focused on both science and policy, Kuhn and Fleck unravel the tangled web that has constructed the current crisis. With key decisions being made now, including negotiations for rules governing how the Colorado River water will be used after 2026, Science Be Dammed offers a clear-eyed path forward by looking back. Understanding how mistakes were made is crucial to understanding our contemporary problems. Science Be Dammed offers important lessons in the age of climate change about the necessity of seeking out the best science to support the decisions we make.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Colorado River Aqueduct News written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report Upon the Colorado River of the West written by United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. R. Baker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Comparative Study of Constructing the Colorado River Aqueduct, Half Capacity Initially and Full Capacity Initially written by A. R. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Joseph C. Ives written by United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norris Hundley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520260112
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Water and the West written by Norris Hundley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of the numerous struggles—national, state, and local—that have occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the continuing battles raging over the West's most valuable, and contentious, resource.
Author : Joseph C. Ives
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 written by Joseph C. Ives and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The two engraved maps by F.W. Egloffstein are in a new manner for 1861 and are fully described in Appendix D. The maps were ruled by Samuel Sartain ... These maps demonstrate the idea of lighting objects from the side and showing the variations of tone through the use of ruled lines ..."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 25
Author : Jason Robison
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520976231
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Vision and Place written by Jason Robison and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colorado River Basin’s importance cannot be overstated. Its living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people, contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, and wide swaths of other public lands, and encompasses ancestral homelands of twenty-nine Native American tribes. John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran, explorer, scientist, and adept federal administrator, articulated a vision for Euro-American colonization of the “Arid Region” that has indelibly shaped the basin—a pattern that looms large not only in western history, but also in contemporary environmental and social policy. One hundred and fifty years after Powell’s epic 1869 Colorado River Exploring Expedition, this volume revisits Powell’s vision, examining its historical character and its relative influence on the Colorado River Basin’s cultural and physical landscape in modern times. In three parts, the volume unpacks Powell’s ideas on water, public lands, and Native Americans—ideas at once innovative, complex, and contradictory. With an eye toward climate change and a host of related challenges facing the basin, the volume turns to the future, reflecting on how—if at all—Powell’s legacy might inform our collective vision as we navigate a new “Great Unknown.”
