Unsettled waters : rights, law, and identity in the American West / Eric P. Perramond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perramond, Eric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water rights--New Mexico.

Water rights.

Water demand management--New Mexico--21st century.

Water demand management.

Water-supply--Government policy--New Mexico.

Water-supply.

Water-supply--Government policy.

New Mexico.

Physical Description:

xiii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Summary:

"In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story of resistance involving communal water cultures, Native rights and cleaved identities, clashing experts, and unintended outcomes. Whether the state can alter adjudications to meet the water demands in the twenty-first century will have serious consequences"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the cultures of water sovereignty in New Mexico

Unsettled waters : how water adjudication works, what it does, and what happens when it fails

The production of water expertise, the adjudication-industrial complex and its consequences

Adjudicating the unknown future of New Mexico's water.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Perramond, Eric. Unsettled water.

ISBN:

9780520299351

0520299353

9780520299368

0520299361

OCLC:

1033578801