Cadillac desert

By Marc Reisner

Subjects: Irrigation, Nonfiction, Government policy, Corruption (in politics), Long Now Manual for Civilization, West (U.S.), Water resources development, West (u.s.), history, Hist, Technology, Corruption in politics, History, Water-supply, united states, Political corruption

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.