California State Water Project Atlas
Author : California. Department of Water Resources
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Water quality management
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Author : California. Department of Water Resources
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Water quality management
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Author : California. Department of Water Resources
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release :
Category : Pumping stations
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Author : California. Department of Water Resources
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release :
Category : Water resources development
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Author : William E. Warne
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Water-supply
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Environmental impact statements
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Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Water resources development
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Author : California. Department of Water Resources. Division of Operations and Maintenance
Publisher :
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Water resources development
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Author : California. Department of Water Resources
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Water resources development
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Author : California. Department of Water Resources
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Water resources development
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Author : Tim Stroshane
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 087417001X
This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights to the river. Their rights descend from the days of the Miller & Lux Cattle Company, which amassed an empire of land and water from the 1850s through the 1920s and protected these assets through business deals and prolific litigation. Miller & Lux’s dominance of the river relied on what many in the San Joaquin Valley regarded as wasteful irrigation practices and unreasonable water usage. Economic and political power in California’s present water system was born of this monopoly on water control. Stroshane tells how drought and legal conflict shaped statewide economic development and how the grand bargain of a San Joaquin River water exchange was struck from this monopoly legacy, setting the stage for future water wars. His analysis will appeal to readers interested in environmental studies and public policy.