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Contested waters : an environmental history of the Colorado River /
The Colorado River is a vital resource to urban and agricultural communities across the Southwest, providing water to 30 million people. This book tells the river's story - a story of conquest, control, division, and depletion. Beginning in prehistory and continuing into the present, this book...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder :
University Press of Colorado,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. A river through time.
- Conquering the wild Colorado : the river before 1945
- Farming the desert : agricultural water demands
- Saving the river : the environmental movement
- Sharing the shortage: a river in control
- Part II. Currents of today.
- The metropolis and the desert : growing cities in the west
- Owning the river : Indian water rights and settlements
- Crossing the border: US-Mexico relations and the river
- The water market: banking and selling the Colorado River
- Conclusion.