Author: Donna K. LyonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Water Conservation in the Las Vegas Valley
Author: Donna K. LyonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Where the Water Goes
Author: David OwenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698189906
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential 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. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
Las Vegas Valley Water Budget
Author: Ralph O. PattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artificial groundwater recharge
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Water is for Fighting Over
Author: John FleckPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610916794
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Illuminating." --New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. Yet despite decades of headlines warning of mega-droughts, the death of agriculture, and the collapse of cities, the Colorado River basin has thrived in the face of water scarcity. John Fleck shows how western communities, whether farmers and city-dwellers or U.S. environmentalists and Mexican water managers, actually have a promising record of conservation and cooperation. Rather than perpetuate the myth "Whiskey's for drinkin', water's for fightin' over," Fleck urges readers to embrace a new, more optimistic narrative--a future where the Colorado continues to flow.
Environmental and Hydrologic Settings of the Las Vegas Valley Area and the Carson and Truckee River Basins, Nevada and California
Author: Water Quality in the Las Vegas Valley Area and the Carson and Truckee River Basins, Nevada and California, 1992-96
Author: Hugh E. BevansPublisher: Geological Survey Water Resources Division
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Las Vegas Valley Disposal Boundary
Author: Final Environmental Statement: Second Stage, Southern Nevada Water Project
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Lower Colorado RegionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Las Vegas (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Big Thirst
Author: Charles FishmanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439102082
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Fishmen examines the passing of the golden age of water and reveals the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor.
Urban Water Demand Management and Planning
Author: Duane D. BaumannPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780070503014
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Aims to demonstrate why demand-side management is critical to urban water supply planning and to provide methods for incorporation. This book explains how and why urban water demands have changed over time and includes methods for the analysis of urban water demands. It also offers methods for integrating supply side and demand-side planning and management.