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Author Owen, David, 1955- author.

Title Where the water goes : life and death along the Colorado River / David Owen.

Publication Info. New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  917.91 OWEN    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  917.91 OWE    Storage
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  917.91 OWEN    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  917.913 OWEN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  333.91 OWEN    Check Shelf
Description 274 pages : map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-266) and index.
Contents The headwaters -- The law of the River -- Tributaries -- Go West -- Grand Valley -- Salt, dry lots, and houseboats -- Lees Ferry -- Boulder Canyon Project -- Las Vegas -- Colorado River Aqueduct -- Central Arizona Project -- The rule of capture -- Boondocking -- Imperial Valley -- The Salton Sea -- Reclamation -- The delta -- What is to be done?
Summary The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on.
Subject Owen, David, 1955- -- Travel -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Owen, David, 1955- (OCoLC)fst00064517
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel.
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Environmental conditions.
Water-supply -- West (U.S.)
Stream ecology -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Water-supply. (OCoLC)fst01172350
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Stream ecology. (OCoLC)fst01134567
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
North America -- Colorado River. (OCoLC)fst01240026
United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Hydrology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply.
TRAVEL / United States / West / General.
ISBN 9781594633775
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