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Cover Page 1 Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Dedication 8 Contents 9 Preface 10 NOTES 13 Acknowledgments 15 Part I. A River through Time 17 1. Conquering the Wild Colorado 18 As the River Flows 18 Early Exploration 20 Taming the River 28 NOTES 35 2. Farming the Desert 43 Agriculture and Its Impact on Water 43 The 160-Acre Limit 48 Arizona v. California and CAP 52 Upper Basin Projects 60 NOTES 62 3. Saving the River 69 Altered River Environment 69 Saving the Grand Canyon 72 CAP: The Last Big Diversion Project 75 Environment versus Development 80 NOTES 84 4. Sharing the Shortage 91 Defeat of Presidential Reform 92 Slow Change 95 River Use at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century 100 NOTES 105 Part 2. Currents of Today 113 5. The Metropolis and the Desert 114 San Diego (est. 1769) 114 Los Angeles (est. 1781) 116 Tucson (est. 1775) 119 Denver (est. 1858) 121 Phoenix (est. 1881) 123 Tijuana (est. 1889) 125 Mexicali (est. 1903) 128 Las Vegas (est. 1905) 130 Urban Water Users and the Colorado River 133 NOTES 135 6. Owning the River 144 The Dry Reservation 144 Only “Paper Water” 148 Quantification and “Wet Water” 152 Indian Water Marketing 158 NOTES 161 7. Crossing the Border 169 Reluctant Sh

Author

Summitt, April R.;

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Language

EN