Author: Arthur Maass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Kings River Project in the Basin of the Great Central Valley
Author: Arthur Maass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Kings River Project in the Basin of the Great Central Valley
Author: Arthur Maass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Central Valley Project Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Reports and Documents
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Task Force Report
Author: United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1947-1949)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Reports to the Congress, 1949
Author: United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1947-1949)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project
Author: Tim Stroshane
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 087417001X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights to the river. Their rights descend from the days of the Miller & Lux Cattle Company, which amassed an empire of land and water from the 1850s through the 1920s and protected these assets through business deals and prolific litigation. Miller & Lux’s dominance of the river relied on what many in the San Joaquin Valley regarded as wasteful irrigation practices and unreasonable water usage. Economic and political power in California’s present water system was born of this monopoly on water control. Stroshane tells how drought and legal conflict shaped statewide economic development and how the grand bargain of a San Joaquin River water exchange was struck from this monopoly legacy, setting the stage for future water wars. His analysis will appeal to readers interested in environmental studies and public policy.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 087417001X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights to the river. Their rights descend from the days of the Miller & Lux Cattle Company, which amassed an empire of land and water from the 1850s through the 1920s and protected these assets through business deals and prolific litigation. Miller & Lux’s dominance of the river relied on what many in the San Joaquin Valley regarded as wasteful irrigation practices and unreasonable water usage. Economic and political power in California’s present water system was born of this monopoly on water control. Stroshane tells how drought and legal conflict shaped statewide economic development and how the grand bargain of a San Joaquin River water exchange was struck from this monopoly legacy, setting the stage for future water wars. His analysis will appeal to readers interested in environmental studies and public policy.
Report on Water Resources and Power
Author: United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1953-1955). Task Force on Water Resources and Power
Publisher:
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Category : Electric Utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 1878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric Utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 1878
Book Description
Task Force Report[s]
Author: United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1947-1949)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley
Author: Philip Garone
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520355571
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells how California’s wetlands were nearly obliterated by vast irrigation and reclamation projects, but have been brought back from the brink of total destruction by the organized efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a broad coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the many demands that have been made on the Valley’s natural resources, especially by large-scale agriculture, and traces the unforeseen ecological consequences of our unrestrained manipulation of nature. He also investigates changing public and scientific attitudes that are now ushering in an era of unprecedented protection for wildlife and wetlands in California and the nation.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520355571
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells how California’s wetlands were nearly obliterated by vast irrigation and reclamation projects, but have been brought back from the brink of total destruction by the organized efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a broad coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the many demands that have been made on the Valley’s natural resources, especially by large-scale agriculture, and traces the unforeseen ecological consequences of our unrestrained manipulation of nature. He also investigates changing public and scientific attitudes that are now ushering in an era of unprecedented protection for wildlife and wetlands in California and the nation.