Running out?
Subtitle: water in Western Australia
By: Ruth A. Morgan
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Crawley, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781742586236
Subjects: History; Water-supply; Climatic changes; Water security
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Settling the season : sowing the seeds of vulnerability (1829 to 1901); title: Thirst in the Golden West : suburban and agricultural expansion (1901 to 1945); title: A million acres a year : engineering post-war prosperity (1945 to 1969); title: The 'Age of anxiety' : reaching the limits of settlement (1969 to 1983); title: Precaution and prediction : economic rationalism, ecologically sustainable development and environmental change (1983 to 2001); title: Watershed : climate and water in the early twenty-first century (2001 to 2014); title: Runnning out?