Author: Arthur DeWint Foote
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Redemption of the Great Valley of California
Author: Arthur DeWint Foote
Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Redemption of the Great Valley of California
Author: Arthur DeWint Foote
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Category : Flood dams and reservoirs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Flood dams and reservoirs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Redemption of the Great Valley of California
Author: Arthur DeWint Foote
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Endangered Dreams
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Americans and the California D
ISBN: 0195100808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
History of California in the 1930s, discussing topics that include the depression, Utpon Sinclair's campaign for governor, Harry Bridges and the San Francisco general strike, and the public and private relief programs for the more than one million emigrants from the dust bowl.
Publisher: Americans and the California D
ISBN: 0195100808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
History of California in the 1930s, discussing topics that include the depression, Utpon Sinclair's campaign for governor, Harry Bridges and the San Francisco general strike, and the public and private relief programs for the more than one million emigrants from the dust bowl.
Rivers of Empire
Author: Donald Worster
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195078060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195078060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Conservation
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Proceedings
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 2016
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 2016
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Vols. 29-30 contain papers of the International Engineering Congress, Chicago, 1893; v. 54, pts. A-F, papers of the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis, 1904.
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Vols. 29-30 contain papers of the International Engineering Congress, Chicago, 1893; v. 54, pts. A-F, papers of the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis, 1904.
The California Debris Commission
Author: Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.)
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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The Engineering Index Annual for ...
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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