Border Oasis
Subtitle: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975 (Environmental History of the Borderlands)
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780816522231
Subjects: General; Water Supply; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Water-supply; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Real Estate - General; Business/Economics; Government policy; Finance; Water resources development; Economics - General; Colorado River Delta (Mexico)
Description: "The environmental history of the Colorado River delta during the past century is one of the most important - and most neglected - stories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.".

"Border Oasis tells how two very different nations developed the delta into an agricultural oasis at enormous environmental cost. Focusing on the years 1940 to 1975 - including the disastrous salinity crisis of the 1960s and 1970s - it combines Mexican, Native American, and U.S. perspectives to demonstrate that the political and diplomatic influences on the delta played as much a part in the region's transformation as did irrigation.

Ward reveals how mistrust among political and economic participants has been fueled by conflict between national and local officials on both sides of the border, by Mexican nationalism, and by a mutual recognition that water is the critical ingredient for regional economic development."--BOOK JACKET.