Water and Agriculture in Colorado and the American West : First in Line for the Rio Grande /

"Water and Agriculture in Colorado and the American West: First in Line for the Rio Grande is a chronicle of drought and water shortages throughout the rapidly growing American West, where long-established agricultural water rights play an increasingly critical role in problematic attempts to s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stiller, David, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Water-supply, Agricultural.
Water rights.
Water in agriculture.
Water-supply, Agricultural > Rio Grande Watershed (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > History.
Water-supply, Agricultural > West (U.S.) > History.
Water-supply, Agricultural > Colorado > History.
Water in agriculture > Rio Grande Watershed (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > History.
Water in agriculture > West (U.S.) > History.
Water in agriculture > Colorado > History.
West United States.
North America > Rio Grande Watershed.
North America > Rio Grande.
Colorado.
Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > Water rights.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The river, the valley, and early customs with water
  • Mining and farming : one fed the other
  • A doctrine for water takes shape
  • Agriculture settles in
  • Era of bonanza farming
  • The role and importance of storage
  • Making an aquifer
  • The compact and the closed basin
  • Competing interests butt heads
  • A fire and a kitchen sink
  • Crisis in the valley
  • Collaboration as an economic and cultural tool
  • Elsewhere in Colorado and the West
  • A new normal.

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