From Reclamation to Sustainability: Water, Agriculture, and the Environment in the American West

Authors

Lawrence J. MacDonnellFollow

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Publication Date

1999

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Description

This digital resource contains only an abstract, cover image and table of contents information from the published book.

Print copy of book is available in the University of Colorado’s Wise Law Library: http://lawpac.colorado.edu/record=b236740~S0

Contents: Introduction : Living in a land of limited water -- PART 1. THE LOWER ARKANSAS VALLEY : AFTER THE WATER IS GONE: Colorado's Arkansas River -- Watering and cultivating the prairie -- Stretching a limited water supply -- Irrigation water for sale? -- A hostile takeover? -- Looking ahead -- PART 2. THE GRAND VALLEY, COLORADO : WHERE FRUIT, FISH, AND GROWTH COLLIDE: Growing peaches in an arid mountain valley -- The problem of salt -- Competition from across the Divide and closer to home -- Water for native fish -- The promise-and problems-of water conservation -- PART 3. THE TRUCKEE AND CARSON BASINS : SHARING WATER IN A DESERT: Life in a land in between -- Redeeming the "irredeemable" -- An environmental reckoning -- The ongoing search for redemption -- What happens to irrigation? -- What next? -- PART 4. THE YAKIMA BASIN, WASHINGTON : MAKING THE "OLD WEST" WORK: The place -- The first people -- Reclamation in the Yakima -- A tale of two irrigation districts -- Adjudicating water rights -- The salmon -- Taking stock -- PART 5. FROM RECLAMATION TO SUSTAINABILITY: From reclamation to sustainability -- Reducing the gap between diversion and consumption -- Allowing our rivers to function like rivers -- Water that changes use to meet demand -- Getting there -- Epilogue : A Faustian bargain?

Citation Information

MacDonnell, Lawrence J., "From Reclamation to Sustainability: Water, Agriculture, and the Environment in the American West" (1999). Books, Reports, and Studies. 139.
https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/139