Central Valley Project Water Use
Title | Central Valley Project Water Use PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1975 |
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Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project
Title | Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Stroshane |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2016-10-27 |
Genre | 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.
Central Valley Project Water Use
Title | Central Valley Project Water Use PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1975 |
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Draft Environmental Statement
Title | Draft Environmental Statement PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Environmental protection |
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Central Valley Project
Title | Central Valley Project PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 1952 |
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Water Use Conflicts in the West
Title | Water Use Conflicts in the West PDF eBook |
Author | Marca Weinberg |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Water consumption |
ISBN | 0788171003 |
Conflicts among water users still occur in the American West. Environmentalists, who want water to be left in the rivers to preserve threatened species, compete with urban & agricultural users for the West's limited water resources. Native American water rights are also receiving more attention. This study analyzes the policy tools slated for use in California, estimates the costs of those reforms to agriculture in the state, & discusses the implications of using those policy tools in the rest of the West. Policy changes introduced in California could serve as models for changes throughout the West. Charts & tables.
Proposed Use of Central Valley Project Water Through Enlarged Cross Valley Canal, Central Valley Project, California
Title | Proposed Use of Central Valley Project Water Through Enlarged Cross Valley Canal, Central Valley Project, California PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Water resources development |
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