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Water and Arid Lands of the Western United States : A World Resources Institute Book
ISBN: 9780521118224 | 0521118220
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 8/6/2009
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In Water and the Arid Lands of the Western United States the authors explore the nature of water demands in the agricultural and municipal sectors and set forth prescriptions for the west to move away from its historical reliance on expensive supply-side projects and toward better management of existing supplies.
Despite impressive innovations by some states, western water laws and institutions now in place were designed chiefly for an earlier era and have not adapted to the new demands and stresses on water resour... MORE
Despite impressive innovations by some states, western water laws and institutions now in place were designed chiefly for an earlier era and have not adapted to the new demands and stresses on water resour... MORE
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| The West in profile | |
| The Great American Desert transformed: aridity, exploitation, and imperialism in the making of the modern American west | |
| The Central valley of California | |
| Land and water management issues: Texas high plains | |
| Water resources of the Upper Colorado river basin: problems and policy alternatives | |
| Growth and water i... MORE | |
| Toward sustaining a desert metropolis: water and land use in Tucson, Arizona | |
| Water management issues in the Denver, Colorado, urban area | |
| New water policies for the West | |
| Appendix | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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