Water For Nevada
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Author |
: David Owen |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2017-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780698189904 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0698189906 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where the Water Goes by : David Owen
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
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Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: NWU:35556031251788 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Southern Nevada Water Project, Second Stage by :
Author |
: Nevada. State Engineer |
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: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:77635953 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water for Nevada by : Nevada. State Engineer
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: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 58 |
Release |
: 1965 |
ISBN-10 |
: LOC:00139383606 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Southern Nevada Water Project by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Considers S. 32, to authorize Interior Dept to construct and maintain the Southern Nevada Water Project, Nevada, to provide additional water supply and irrigation.
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: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 82 |
Release |
: 1965 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32437122995380 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Southern Nevada Water Project by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Considers (89) H.R. 2020, (89) S. 32.
Author |
: Christian S. Harrison |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2021-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806176901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806176903 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis All the Water the Law Allows by : Christian S. Harrison
As the population of the greater Las Vegas area grows and the climate warms, the threat of a water shortage looms over southern Nevada. But as Christian S. Harrison demonstrates in All the Water the Law Allows, the threat of shortage arises not from the local environment but from the American legal system, specifically the Law of the River that governs water allocation from the Colorado River. In this political and legal history of the Las Vegas water supply, Harrison focuses on the creation and actions of the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to tell a story with profound implications and important lessons for water politics and natural resource policy in the twenty-first century. In the state with the smallest allocation of the Colorado’s water supply, Las Vegas faces the twin challenges of aridity and federal law to obtain water for its ever-expanding population. All the Water the Law Allows describes how the impending threat of shortage in the 1980s compelled the five metropolitan water agencies of greater Las Vegas to unify into a single entity. Harrison relates the circumstances of the SNWA’s evolution and reveals how the unification of local, county, and state interests allowed the compact to address regional water policy with greater force and focus than any of its peers in the Colorado River Basin. Most notably, the SNWA has mapped conservation plans that have drastically reduced local water consumption; and, in the interstate realm, it has been at the center of groundbreaking, water-sharing agreements. Yet these achievements do not challenge the fundamental primacy of the Law of the River. If current trends continue and the Basin States are compelled to reassess the river’s distribution, the SNWA will be a force and a model for the Basin as a whole.
Author |
: John G. McNeeley |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCR:31210024878124 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water-related Recreation in Nevada by : John G. McNeeley
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: Nevada. Division of Water Resources |
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Total Pages |
: 106 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCR:31210024878181 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Guide to Nevada State Water Planning Reports by : Nevada. Division of Water Resources
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Total Pages |
: 38 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112042696697 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water for Nevada by :
Author |
: Nevada. State Engineer |
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Total Pages |
: 90 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105001791081 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water for Nevada: Water-related recreation in Nevada, present and future by : Nevada. State Engineer