Uphill against water
Subtitle: the great Dakota water war
By: Peter Carrels.
Series: Our sustainable future
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.) Oahe Unit; Water resources development -- South Dakota -- History; Water resources development -- South Dakota -- Citizen participation -- History
Description: Publisher description: In Uphill against Water, Peter Carrels examines the history of Missouri River water development projects in general and describes the struggle over one of the largest of those projects, South Dakota's Oahe irrigation project, in detail. Opposition to the Oahe project was intense and well organized. After four years of bitter competition, an energetic and resourceful grassroots group, United Family Farmers, wrested control of the Oahe conservancy district board, a government agency that had been an ardent supporter of the irrigation project. That political triumph led to the only victory in the West by a grassroots group over the Bureau of Reclamation and the irrigation and business establishment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and index.