Dam nation
Subtitle: how water shaped the west and will determine its future
By: Stephen Grace
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762770656
Subjects: Dams; Water-supply; Hydrology; Water resources development; History
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Trouble; title: Into the parched frontier; title: Settling the great American desert; title: Reclamation; title: The law of the river; title: Dam nation; title: What we have lost; title: When dams fall; title: The wealth below; title: The new normal; title: Tainted waters; title: Silt, salt, and civilization; title: Water in the twenty-first-century west; title: Epilogue: A brief history of water's future.