Author: Zach WilleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Economic Development and Environmental Quality in California's Water System
Author: Zach WilleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
California's Irrigation System
Author: California's Complex Water System
Author: Pamela BrunskillPublisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425832458
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Where does Californias water come from? How is it used? Why is it important to conserve water? This text teaches students the answers to these important questions, and uses primary sources to simplify this complex topic and make it interesting to students. This nonfiction book builds students reading skills and social studies content knowledge. The intriguing primary source maps, letters, documents, and images provide authentic nonfiction reading materials and keep students interested in learning. Text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents. This book connects to California state studies standards and the NCSS/C3 Framework and features appropriately leveled text to meet the needs of students reading at different levels. Additional features include Read and Respond and a culminating activity that prompt students to dive deeper into the text for additional reading and learning.
California's Complex Water System 6-Pack
Author: Pamela BrunskillPublisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425832822
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Where does California's water come from? Who are its users? How is water conserved? California has the largest economy and population in the United States, and its limited water supply must meet the demands of many people. Learn about the history of California's water system with these primary source readers that build literacy and social studies content knowledge! Primary source documents help students look at the world and current issues with a historical lens, and encourage them to consider bias and the validity and reliability of sources. This 6-Pack offers instructional opportunities to guide students to increased fluency and comprehension of nonfiction text and is aligned to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) and other national and state standards. Essential text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. The Read and Respond activity immerses students in the content through diverse, engaging activities related to the content. The Your Turn! activity challenges students to connect to a primary source through a writing activity. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project
Author: Tim StroshanePublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 087417001X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights to the river. Their rights descend from the days of the Miller & Lux Cattle Company, which amassed an empire of land and water from the 1850s through the 1920s and protected these assets through business deals and prolific litigation. Miller & Lux’s dominance of the river relied on what many in the San Joaquin Valley regarded as wasteful irrigation practices and unreasonable water usage. Economic and political power in California’s present water system was born of this monopoly on water control. Stroshane tells how drought and legal conflict shaped statewide economic development and how the grand bargain of a San Joaquin River water exchange was struck from this monopoly legacy, setting the stage for future water wars. His analysis will appeal to readers interested in environmental studies and public policy.
Managing California's Water
Author: Ellen HanakPublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582131414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
California Water Myths
Author: Ellen HanakCalifornia Drought
Author: Betsy A. CodyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437927572
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
California experienced severe water supply shortages in 2009, which led to economic disruption across the state, incl. losses in agricultural areas in the western portion of the Central Valley ¿ areas already experiencing declines in the housing industry and the economic downturn in general. At the same time, several fish species whose habitat lie at the heart of California¿s water supply system and throughout its northern rivers are in decline and some face the possibility of extinction. This situation too has had economic implications, resulting in job and income losses in northern California. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.; (2) What is Drought?; (3) Drought in California; (4) Regulatory Restrictions Affecting Water Deliveries; (5) California Water Rights. Illus.
California's Irrigation System
Author: Irrigation Districts in California, 1887-1915
Author: Frank AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description