Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Working Water for California's Central Valley
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project
Author: Tim StroshanePublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 087417001X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights to the river. Their rights descend from the days of the Miller & Lux Cattle Company, which amassed an empire of land and water from the 1850s through the 1920s and protected these assets through business deals and prolific litigation. Miller & Lux’s dominance of the river relied on what many in the San Joaquin Valley regarded as wasteful irrigation practices and unreasonable water usage. Economic and political power in California’s present water system was born of this monopoly on water control. Stroshane tells how drought and legal conflict shaped statewide economic development and how the grand bargain of a San Joaquin River water exchange was struck from this monopoly legacy, setting the stage for future water wars. His analysis will appeal to readers interested in environmental studies and public policy.
Water Transfers in the West
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309045282
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The American West faces many challenges, but none is more important than the challenge of managing its water. This book examines the role that water transfers can play in allocating the region's scarce water resources. It focuses on the variety of third parties, including Native Americans, Hispanic communities, rural communities, and the environment, that can sometimes be harmed when water is moved. The committee presents recommendations to guide states, tribes, and federal agencies toward better regulation. Seven in-depth case studies are presented: Nevada's Carson-Truckee basin, the Colorado Front Range, northern New Mexico, Washington's Yakima River basin, central Arizona, and the Central and Imperial valleys in California. Water Transfers in the West presents background and current information on factors that have encouraged water transfers, typical types of transfers, and their potential negative effects. The book highlights the benefits that water transfers can bring but notes the need for more third-party representation in the processes used to evaluate planned transfers.
Managing California's Water
Author: Ellen HanakPublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582131414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Dreamt Land
Author: Mark AraxPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101910194
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
The California State Water Project
Author: California. Department of Water ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Central Valley Basin
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Policy Statement of the Central Valley Regional Water Pollution Control Board for the Control and Abatement of Water Pollution in the Central Valley
Author: California. Central Valley Regional Water Pollution Control BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Ground-water Flow in the Central Valley, California
Author: Alex K. WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
California's Central Valley Groundwater Study
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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