Title: Cadillac desert
Subtitle: the American West and its disappearing water
Description: "Beautifully written and meticulously researched."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.
Subjects: History, Government policy, Irrigation, Water resources development, Political corruption, Corruption (in politics), Nonfiction, Technology, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Corruption in politics, West (U.S.), Hist, Water-supply, united states, West (u.s.), history
Places: West (U.S.)