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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : LOC:00100930766
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02094922R
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110714008
Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780698189904
“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.
Author : April R. Summitt
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781607322115
"To fully understand this river and its past, one must examine many separate pieces of history scattered throughout two nations--seven states within the United States and two within Mexico--and sort through a large amount of scientific data. One needs to be part hydrologist, geologist, economist, sociologist, anthropologist, and historian to fully understand the entire story. Despite this river's narrow size and meager flow, its tale is very large indeed." -From the conclusion The Colorado River is a vital resource to urban and agricultural communities across the Southwest, providing water to 30 million people. Contested Waters tells the river's story-a story of conquest, control, division, and depletion. Beginning in prehistory and continuing into the present day, Contested Waters focuses on three important and often overlooked aspects of the river's use: the role of western water law in its over-allocation, the complexity of power relationships surrounding the river, and the concept of sustainable use and how it has been either ignored or applied in recent times. It is organized in two parts, the first addresses the chronological history of the river and long-term issues, while the second examines in more detail four specific topics: metropolitan perceptions, American Indian water rights, US-Mexico relations over the river, and water marketing issues. Creating a complete picture of the evolution of this crucial yet over-utilized resource, this comprehensive summary will fascinate anyone interested in the Colorado River or the environmental history of the Southwest.
Author : Katherine Ott Verburg
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 016088201X
Discusses the history of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's operation and management of the Colorado River on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior from 1979 through 2008. Details the political, legal, institutional, and other instruments developed to address pressing issues faced by Colorado River Basin water users and managers. Reflective of its era, the 2008 volume has an increased focus on coordinated operations of the river in both the Upper and Lower Basins, on environmental matters, on the relationship with Mexico, and on Native American water settlements.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : SRLF:A0000135418
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : LOC:00187001298
Considers legislation to authorize construction and maintenance of a dam at Bridge Canyon on the Colorado River in Arizona and to grant Congressional consent to the joinder of the U.S. as a party in suits for adjudication of claims to waters of the Colorado River system.\
Author : Wesley R. Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Boulder dam
ISBN : UOM:39015047641165
Author : Reuel Leslie Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : UCAL:B3116022
Author : Christian S. Harrison
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806176888
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 : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : LOC:00106426193
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on the Scientific Bases of Colorado River Basin Water Management
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309105248
Recent studies of past climate and streamflow conditions have broadened understanding of long-term water availability in the Colorado River, revealing many periods when streamflow was lower than at any time in the past 100 years of recorded flows. That information, along with two important trends-a rapid increase in urban populations in the West and significant climate warming in the region-will require that water managers prepare for possible reductions in water supplies that cannot be fully averted through traditional means. Colorado River Basin Water Management assesses existing scientific information, including temperature and streamflow records, tree-ring based reconstructions, and climate model projections, and how it relates to Colorado River water supplies and demands, water management, and drought preparedness. The book concludes that successful adjustments to new conditions will entail strong and sustained cooperation among the seven Colorado River basin states and recommends conducting a comprehensive basinwide study of urban water practices that can be used to help improve planning for future droughts and water shortages.
Author : Katherine Ott Verburg
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000135119463
Developed by the Bureau of Reclamation's Upper Colorado and Lower Colorado Regions, in collaboration with the Boulder City Field Solicitor, this is the latest of four books published by the Bureau of Reclamation to address the management of the Colorado River since the early 1900s. It summarizes 30 years of updates to the "Law of the Colorado River," a compilation of compacts, federal laws, court decisions and decrees, contracts, and regulatory guidelines that have been implemented over nearly a century to guide the management and operation of the Colorado River. It details the statutes, policies, agreements, and court decisions related to river operations, environmental matters, Mexican treaty deliveries, water development, water entitlement actions, Native American water settlements, proceedings in Arizona v. California, and power generation and distribution issues. All four books are available on the DVD.
Author : Wells Aleck Hutchins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Riparian rights
ISBN : MINN:31951T00244876O