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Zusatztext "A must read for Colorado River buffs! as well as anyone who wants a glimpse of what lies ahead for water." Informationen zum Autor James Lawrence Powell! Executive Director of the National Physical Science Consortium at the University of Southern California! is author of Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle! among other books. Klappentext " Dead Pool is the best book I know about the current state of the Colorado River and the policy issues facing it."-Donald Worster! author of Rivers of Empire " Dead Pool offers a powerful epitaph to the era of big dams. Carefully researched and cogently argued! it shows how the self-serving promoters of the Colorado River's dams have consistently ignored natural limits imposed by water supply! silt! and salt! creating a long-term crisis that may make ghost towns out of many of the overpopulated cities of the American West."-Jacques Leslie! author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams! Displaced People! and the Environment Zusammenfassung Where will the water come from to sustain the great desert cities of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix? This title explores the water in the West, and explains why America built the dam that made Lake Powell and others like it and then allowed its citizens to become dependent on their benefits, which were always temporary. Inhaltsverzeichnis LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PART ONE RIVER OF SURPRISE 1 / The Dam Is Not Going to Break / 2 / Playing Dice with Nature / PART TWO RIVER OF EMPIRE 3 / Appointment in Samarra / 4 / One Simple Fact / 5 / The Reality of Empire / 6 / This Vast Plain of Opulent Soil / 7 / Lonely Lands Made Fruitful / PART THREE RIVER OF CONTROVERSY 8 / Natural Menace Becomes National Resource / 9 / Shall We Let Them Ruin Our National Parks? / 10 / We Want to Be Dammed / 11 / To Have a Deep Blue Lake / 12 / The Biggest Boondoggle / PART FOUR RIVER OF LIMITS 13 / Time Machines / 14 / A New Climatology / 15 / Rainmakers / 16 / Let People in the Future Worry about It / 17 / A Hundred Green Lagoons / PART FIVE RIVER OF TOMORROW 18 / River of Law / 19 / The West against Itself / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTES INDEX ...
