Unsettled Waters
Subtitle: Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 06, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780520299351
Description: "In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story of resistance involving communal water cultures, Native rights and cleaved identities, clashing experts, and unintended outcomes. Whether the state can alter adjudications to meet the water demands in the twenty-first century will have serious consequences"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Source title: Unsettled Waters: Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West (Volume 5) (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics)