Cadillac desert

Description:

"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: History,  Government policy,  Irrigation,  Water resources development,  Political corruption,  Corruption (in politics),  Nonfiction,  Technology,  Long Now Manual for Civilization,  Corruption in politics,  West (U.S.),  Hist,  Water-supply, united states,  West (u.s.), history

Places: West (U.S.)