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Western Water Made Simple
by High Country News
Island Press, 1987
Paper: 978-0-933280-39-7
Library of Congress Classification TD223.6.W48 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.9100978
Paper: 978-0-933280-39-7
Library of Congress Classification TD223.6.W48 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.9100978
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A lively account of the most pressing issues facing Western water.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part One
- Western Water Made Simple
- 1
- The West's Water-crats and Dam-icans
- Marston, Ed
- 2
- The Corps Adapts, the Bureau Founders
- Mosher, Lawrence
- 3
- Selling Water, or Selling Out?
- Gottlieb, Bob
- Wiley, Peter
- 4
- When Water Kingdoms Clash
- Marston, Ed
- 5
- Shrink to Fit
- Towne, Douglas
- Part Two
- The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
- 6
- The Stuff of Moral Tales
- Marston, Ed
- 7
- A Great Loneliness of the Spirit
- Wilkinson, Charles F.
- Conner, Daniel Keith
- 8
- The Dammed Columbia
- Williams, Chuck
- 9
- Salmon: Continuity for a Culture
- Stowell, Cynthia D.
- 10
- A Working Relationship
- Williams, Chuck
- 11
- The View from the Upper Basin
- Ford, Pat
- 12
- The Chainsaw Massacre
- Roberts, Hadley
- 13
- Showing the West the Way
- Huser, Verne
- Part Three
- The Missouri River: In Search of Destiny
- 14
- The Missouri River: Developed, but for What?
- Marston, Ed
- 15
- There Are No Boring Landscapes
- Carrels, Peter
- 16
- “The Most Useless River There Is”
- Carrels, Peter
- 17
- How Could Anyone Oppose, or Favor, the Garrison Project?
- Marston, Ed
- 18
- The Real Water Lawyers
- Ambler, Marjane
- 19
- A Tale of Two Irrigation Districts
- Ambler, Marjane
- Part Four
- The Colorado River As Plumbing
- 20
- They Built Better than They Knew
- Marston, Ed
- 21
- With Rackless Impetuosity
- Houk, Rose
- 22
- Sharing Water with the Colossus of the North
- Trava, Jose
- 23
- The Bureau's Rube Goldberg Machines
- Krza, Paul
- 24
- What Size Shoe Does an Acre-Foot Wear?
- Quillen, Ed
- 25
- Night Watch
- Rawlins, C.L.
- 26
- Reworking the Colorado River Basin
- Marston, Ed
- 27
- The Snow Also Rises
- Best, Allen
- Selected Reading List
- Index
- Also Available from Island Press
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