Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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 : 429
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 : 429
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.
Working Water for California's Central Valley
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Working Water for California's Central Valley
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Working Water for California's Central Valley
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Working Water for California's Central Valley
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Central Valley Basin
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Managing California's Water
Author: Ellen Hanak
Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582131414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582131414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Working Water for California's Central Valley
Author: Etats-Unis. Reclamation (Bureau)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
California's Central Valley Groundwater Study
Author:
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Category : Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Water Justice
Author: Rutgerd Boelens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107179084
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107179084
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.