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Water and the California Dream: Historic Choices for Shaping the Future

Water and the California Dream: Historic Choices for Shaping the Future

Carle, David

Paperback

Real EstateEnvironmental StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1619026171
ISBN13: 9781619026179
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: May 10 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life, with land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altering both urban and rural communities. The key to this transformation has been expanded access to water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. Whoever brings the water, brings the people, wrote engineer William Mulholland, under whose leadership the process of growth through irrigation began. Now, using first-person voices of Californians to reveal the resulting changes, author David Carle concludes that it may be time to stop drowning the California dream of the good life with imported water.

Using oral histories, contemporary newspaper articles, and autobiographies, Carle explores the historic changes in California, showing how imported water has shaped the pattern of population growth in the state. Because water choices remain the primary tool for shaping California's future, Carle also argues that it is possible to improve both the state's damaged environment and the quality of life if Californians will step out of this historic pattern and embrace limited water supplies as a fact of life in this naturally dry region.

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