582 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1993 by Penguin Books.
5 stars
(1 review)
"Beautifully written and meticulously researched."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.
Subjects
- Irrigation -- Government policy -- West (U.S.) -- History
- Water resources development -- Government policy -- West (U.S.) -- History
- Political corruption -- West (U.S.) -- History