Water and Arid Lands of the Western United States
Subtitle: A World Resources Institute Book
Contributors: Mohamed T. El-Ashry (Editor); Diana C. Gibbons (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 30, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780521350402
Subjects: Hydrology (freshwater); Science/Mathematics; Water And Marine Resources Management; Science; Business / Economics / Finance; West (U.S.); Water-supply; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Real Estate - General; Science / Biology; Water-supply--West (U.S.); Arid regions; Irrigation; Water resources development
First sentence: Water development in the American West has been shaped by the region's geography, legal and institutional arrangements, urban expansion, and the spread of irrigated agriculture.