Author: Publisher:
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Category : Reservoirs
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Final, Programmatic Environmental Assessment for Rulemaking for Offstream Storage of Colorado River Water and Development and Release of Intentionally Created Unused Apportionment in the Lower Division States (43 CFR Part 414): App. H. Comments and responses on proposed rule and draft programmatic environmental assessment
Author: The Boulder Canyon Project
Author: Wesley R. NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boulder dam
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Colorado River and Its Utilization
Author: Eugene Clyde La RuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Hoover Dam Documents
Author: United States Department of the InteriorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Programs
Author: United States. Employment and Training AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Federal Reclamation and Related Laws Annotated (preliminary)
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Where the Water Goes
Author: David OwenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735216096
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
“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.
Science Be Dammed
Author: Eric KuhnPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816540055
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
