Managing water : avoiding crisis in California / Dorothy Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Dorothy, 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--California--Management.

Water-supply.

Water quality--California.

Water quality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and understanding this system is not easy. This book describes how the current system works (or doesn't work) and discusses the issues that face elected officials, water and resource managers, and the general public. Using the Los Angeles area as a microcosm of the state, environmental activist Dorothy Green gathers detailed information on its water systems and applies the lessons learned from this data statewide. A useful primer on watershed and water policy issues, this book provides reasoned, thoughtful, and insightful arguments about sustainability.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. Los Angeles Area Water Supplies

2. Water Management: Who's in Charge?

3. Water Use Efficiency

4. Drinking Water Quality

5. State Policy and the Los Angeles Area

GLOSSARY

NATIVE PLANT RESOURCES

WEBSITES OF INTEREST

SUGGESTED READINGS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293) and index.

ISBN:

9786612360121

9781282360129

1282360124

9780520941229

0520941225

OCLC:

609849935