The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark b…
This history of water rights in the American West focuses on the political corruption and intrigue, including the rivalry between the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in t…
The story of the American West is the story of the relentless quest to control and allocate nature's most common, and the West's most precious, resource: water. In [this book, the author] writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tact…
"Beautifully written and meticulously researched."'St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West