Monday 28 July 2014
Reading Material
Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner, is a 1986 book published by Viking (ISBN 0-14-017824-4) about land development and water policy in the western United States. Subtitled The American West and its Disappearing Water, it gives the history of the Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
and their struggle to remake the American West. The book's main
conclusion is that development-driven policies, formed when settling the
West was the country's main concern, are having serious long-term
negative effects on the environment and water quantity. The book was
revised and updated in 1993.
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