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Where the water goes : life and death along the Colorado River / David Owen.

Owen, David, 1955- (author.).

Summary:

The Colorado River is a crucial 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.

Contents:

The headwaters
The law of the River
Tributaries
Go West
Grand Valley
Salt, dry lots, and houseboats
Lees Ferry
Boulder Canyon Project
Las Vegas
Colorado River Aqueduct
Central Arizona Project
The rule of capture
Boondocking
Imperial Valley
The Salton Sea
Reclamation
The delta
What is to be done?

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781594633775
  • ISBN: 1594633770
  • ISBN: 0735216096
  • ISBN: 9780735216099
  • Physical Description: 274 pages : map ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2017]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The headwaters
The law of the River
Tributaries
Go West
Grand Valley
Salt, dry lots, and houseboats
Lees Ferry
Boulder Canyon Project
Las Vegas
Colorado River Aqueduct
Central Arizona Project
The rule of capture
Boondocking
Imperial Valley
The Salton Sea
Reclamation
The delta
What is to be done?
Subject: Owen, David, 1955- > Travel > Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Water-supply > West (U.S.)
Stream ecology > Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) > Description and travel.
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) > Environmental conditions.
Colorado (Col.-Mexique : Fleuve) > Descriptions et voyages.
Colorado (Col.-Mexique : Fleuve) > Conditions environnementales.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Hydrology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Water Supply.
TRAVEL > United States > West.
Owen, David, 1955-
Water-supply.
Ecology.
Stream ecology.
Travel.
North America > Colorado River.
West United States.
Owen, David, 1955- > Travel.
Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) > Description and travel.
Water supply > West (U.S.)
Stream ecology > Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
Genre: Nonfiction.

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