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Where the Water Goes

David Owen
Where the Water Goes by David Owen PDF

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0735216096

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“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential 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. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.

Colorado River Aqueduct

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
Colorado River Aqueduct by Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.) PDF

Author : Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN :

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A Journey Down the Colorado River Aqueduct

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
A Journey Down the Colorado River Aqueduct by Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.) PDF

Author : Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Colorado River Aqueduct (Calif.)
ISBN :

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