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Drowning the Dream - California's Water Choices at the Millennium (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,851
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Drowning the Dream - California's Water Choices at the Millennium (Hardcover, New): David Carle

Drowning the Dream - California's Water Choices at the Millennium (Hardcover, New)

David Carle

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Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life. In the last one hundred years, land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism have dramatically altered both urban and rural communities across the entire state. The key has been water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River and, finally, Northern California rivers. Whoever brings the water, brings the people wrote engineer William Mulholland, whose leadership began the process of water irrigating unlimited growth. Using first-person voices of Californians to reveal the resulting changes, Carle concludes that the new millennium may be the time to stop drowning the California dream.

With extensive use of oral histories, contemporary newspaper articles, and autobiographies, Carle provides a rich exploration of the historic change in California, showing that imported water has shaped the pattern of population growth in the state. Water choices remain the primary tool, he claims, for shaping California's future. The state's damaged environment and reduced quality of life can be corrected if Californians will step out of their historic pattern and embrace limited water supplies as a fact of life in this naturally dry region.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2000
First published: February 2000
Authors: David Carle
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96719-2
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Hydraulic engineering > General
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LSN: 0-275-96719-0
Barcode: 9780275967192

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