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Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book Owens River Basin, 7 Hydroelectric Projects written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 868 pages
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Download or read book Water-supply Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Hydropower Licensing
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Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book Owens River Basin written by United States. Office of Hydropower Licensing and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary D. Libecap
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804753807
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Owens Valley Revisited written by Gary D. Libecap and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the contemporary West, pressures to more effectively reallocate water to meet growing urban and environmental demands are increasing as environmental awareness grows and climate change threatens existing water supplies. The legacy of Owens Valley raises concerns about how reallocation can occur. Although it took place over seventy years ago, the water transfer from Owens Valley to Los Angeles still plays an important role in perceptions of how water markets work. The memory of Owens Valley transfer is one of theft and environmental destruction at the hands of Los Angeles. In reassessing the infamous transfer, one could say that there was no "theft." Owens Valley landowners fared well in their land and water sales, earning more than if they had stayed in agriculture. In another sense, however, "theft" did occur. The water was not literally stolen, but there was a sharp imbalance in gains from the trade--with most of the benefits going to Los Angeles. Owens Valley, then, demonstrates the importance of distributional issues in water trades when the stakes are large. Los Angeles water rights in the Owens Valley and Mono Basin have again been a front-page issue since 1970. New environmental and recreational values and air pollution concerns have ushered in demands to curtail the shipment of water from source regions for urban use. Owen's Valley Revisited: A Reassesment of the West's First Great Water Transfer carefully explores how these sagas were addressed, considering the costs involved, and alternative approaches that might have resulted in more rapid and less contentious remedies. This analysis offers insights to guide the ongoing conversation about water politics and the future thereof. .
Download or read book Owens River Basin, Seven Hydroelectric Projects, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarence A. Hall
Publisher : University of California White Mountain Research Station
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Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Water written by Clarence A. Hall and published by University of California White Mountain Research Station. This book was released on 1992 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440672822
Total Pages : 674 pages
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Download or read book Cadillac Desert written by Marc Reisner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek 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 book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage. This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.
Author : United States. Office of Hydropower Licensing
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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Owens River Basin written by United States. Office of Hydropower Licensing and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Sauder
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lost Frontier written by Robert A. Sauder and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Owens Valley not only reveals much about the arid West's past, it also allows us to peer into, and perhaps influence, the region's future. The Lost Frontier now provides a yardstick against which recent environmental issues in the Owens Valley might be measured and offers insights into our options for protecting agriculture from urban growth.
Author : Jane Wehrey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738595934
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Owens Valley written by Jane Wehrey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Owens Valley is a bold and beautiful land where rugged alpine peaks tower over the deep trough of high desert that John Muir called "a country of wonderful contrasts." Inhabiting a rich and complex past are native people, miners, cattlemen, farmers, and city builders who laid claim, often violently, to its resources. By 1913, Owens River water was flowing south through the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and from the long and bitter conflicts that followed emerged an Owens Valley future far removed from the agrarian Eden envisioned by 19th-century pioneers. Today, unparalleled recreational opportunities draw millions of visitors annually to this "long brown land" even as reminders of a quintessential Western past linger in its open vistas, epic landscape, and enduring traditions.
