Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and understanding this system is not easy. This book describes how the current system works (or doesn't work) and discusses the issues that face elected officials, water and resource managers, and the general public. Using the Los Angeles area as a microcosm of the state, environmental activist Dorothy Green gathers detailed information on its water systems and applies the lessons learned from this data statewide. A useful primer on watershed and water policy issues, this book provides reasoned, thoughtful, and insightful arguments about sustainability.
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"Offers much food for thought about the complex world of water management in the Golden State. Provides reasoned, thoughtful and insightful arguments about sustainability."--Salinas Californian
"This is not a book just for Californians but anyone in the US."--Botanical Rsrch Inst of Tx, Jbrit
"A highly valuable resource manual. . . . Useful for practitioners and concerned citizens . . . who want to familiarize themselves with water issues."--California History
"This is not a book just for Californians but anyone in the US."--Botanical Rsrch Inst of Tx, Jbrit
"A highly valuable resource manual. . . . Useful for practitioners and concerned citizens . . . who want to familiarize themselves with water issues."--California History
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"Dorothy Green has produced a tour de force with her wonderfully clear exposition of the evolution of water-management successes and failures in the greater Los Angeles area and much of the state."--Norris Hundley, author of The Great Thirst: Californians and Water--A History
"If you have questions about water management in California, this book holds the answers. Water delivery systems make life possible in California, from natural watersheds and rivers to man-made aqueducts, treatment plants and delivery pipes. Dorothy Green's Managing Water uses the Los Angeles area to tell a statewide story of water supply, drinking water quality and treatment, conservation, recycling, and future planning. How is water kept pure or, when polluted, made clean again? What contaminates lurk in groundwater basins? What agency delivers water to your home? And how are water policy decisions made that effect your future? This is a detailed summary of the complex world of California water management that provides common sense recommendations for the future."--David Carle, author of Introduction to Water in California
"For students of California water, Dorothy Green uses the complexity of water management in the Los Angeles area as the essential classroom. This is required reading and a necessary reference for all who participate in southern California's efforts to manage its most limited and threatened resource."--Jeffrey Mount, University of California, Davis, author of California Rivers and Streams
"If you have questions about water management in California, this book holds the answers. Water delivery systems make life possible in California, from natural watersheds and rivers to man-made aqueducts, treatment plants and delivery pipes. Dorothy Green's Managing Water uses the Los Angeles area to tell a statewide story of water supply, drinking water quality and treatment, conservation, recycling, and future planning. How is water kept pure or, when polluted, made clean again? What contaminates lurk in groundwater basins? What agency delivers water to your home? And how are water policy decisions made that effect your future? This is a detailed summary of the complex world of California water management that provides common sense recommendations for the future."--David Carle, author of Introduction to Water in California
"For students of California water, Dorothy Green uses the complexity of water management in the Los Angeles area as the essential classroom. This is required reading and a necessary reference for all who participate in southern California's efforts to manage its most limited and threatened resource."--Jeffrey Mount, University of California, Davis, author of California Rivers and Streams
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This product gives a comprehensive history of water politics in California and analysis of all the agencies involved in water politics today. It is a primer for anyone seriously interested in understanding the complexity of California's water politics.
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