Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner  (94)
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The Great Thirst is a fascinating history of the development of California's water resources. Early immigrants, miners, farmers, environmentalists, private industry, and public agencies pursued their own agendas for access to water and were in turn affected by the "urban imperialism" of Los Angeles and San Francisco, which appropriated water with little regard for the needs of other communities. The diversion of rivers; the building of reservoirs, dams, aqueducts and canals; and the establishment of irrigation districts and other water projects had their supporters and detractors both within and outside the state. Hundley describes the battles, the inequities, and the solutions in California's water wars. He illustrates the complexities of human behavior when interests of population, agriculture, and industry compete for access to a vital resource. Read The Great Thirst and John Walton's Western Times and Water Wars ( LJ 1/92) for an understanding of how water interests shaped California's social and political character. For academic and larger public libraries.
-Irwin Weintraub, Rutgers Univ. Libs., Piscataway, N.J.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
[A] comprehensive account of California water from the Edenic dreamtime of the aboriginal population to the Great Drought of the early 1980s.
The Great Thirst is a fascinating history of the development of California's water resources. Early immigrants, miners, farmers, environmentalists, private industry, and public agencies pursued their own agendas for access to water and were in turn affected by the "urban imperialism" of Los Angeles and San Francisco, which appropriated water with little regard for the needs of other communities. The diversion of rivers; the building of reservoirs, dams, aqueducts and canals; and the establishment of irrigation districts and other water projects had their supporters and detractors both within and outside the state. Hundley describes the battles, the inequities, and the solutions in California's water wars. He illustrates the complexities of human behavior when interests of population, agriculture, and industry compete for access to a vital resource. Read The Great Thirst and John Walton's Western Times and Water Wars ( LJ 1/92) for an understanding of how water interests shaped California's social and political character. For academic and larger public libraries.
-Irwin Weintraub, Rutgers Univ. Libs., Piscataway, N.J.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
[A] comprehensive account of California water from the Edenic dreamtime of the aboriginal population to the Great Drought of the early 1980s.
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