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Author
Series
New Mexico trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Joe Mondragon, thirty-six with not much to show for it, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully, if impulsively (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began -- though few knew it at the time -- the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert and that...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper headlines have screamed, ?Scarce water and the death of California farms,? ?The Dust Bowl returns,? ?A ?megadrought? will grip U.S. in the coming decades.? Yet similar stories have been appearing for decades and the taps continue to flow. John Fleck argues that the talk of impending doom is not only untrue, but dangerous. When people get scared, they fight...
18) Water supply
Series
Reference shelf volume 80, no. 2
Publisher
H.W. Wilson Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English