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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : LOC:00187002278
Considers (84) S.J. Res. 155.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031240021
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031261860
Author : United States. National Resources Planning Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Pecos River
ISBN : UIUC:30112070412066
Author : Patrick Dearen
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806154619
Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.
Author : Engineering and Research Center (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Dams
ISBN : PURD:32754075495147
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Dams
ISBN : OCLC:10106734
Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Dams
ISBN : CORNELL:31924085822421
Author : United States. National Resources Planning Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Pecos River
ISBN : MINN:31951D035504329
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Water conservation
ISBN : NWU:35556036095131
Author : Engineering and Research Center (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Dams
ISBN : PURD:32754075495329
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : MINN:31951D003311794
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Hydroelectric power plants
ISBN : LOC:00110222890
Author : Lucas Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P012178424
Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Denver Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Hydraulic structures
ISBN : UCBK:C068766128
