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RECORD NUMBER: 5685 OF 5716

Main Title Where the water goes : life and death along the Colorado River /
Author Owen, David,
Publisher Riverhead Books,
Year Published 2017
OCLC Number 956479784
ISBN 9781594633775; 1594633770; 0735216096; 9780735216099
Subjects Water-supply--West (US) ; Stream ecology--Colorado River (Colo-Mexico) ; Colorado River (Colo-Mexico)--Description and travel ; Colorado River (Colo-Mexico)--Environmental conditions ; SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Hydrology ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Environmental--Water Supply ; TRAVEL--United States--West ; North America--Colorado River ; Colorado River Watershed (Colo-Mexico)--Description and travel ; Stream ecology--Colorado River Watershed (Colo-Mexico)
Additional Subjects Owen, David,--1955---Travel--Colorado River (Colo-Mexico)
Holdings
Library Call Number Additional Info Location Last
Modified
Checkout
Status
ELBM  F788.O84 2017 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 08/21/2018
EOAM  F788.O84 2017 Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO 08/21/2019
Collation 274 pages : map ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.
Contents Notes
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? 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.