The Great Thirst / Norris Hundley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hundley, Norris, Author.

Contributor:

Norris, Hundley, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California--History.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (828 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed., Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

Preface to the Revised Edition

1. The Aboriginal Waterscape: Manipulation and Near Harmony

The Waterscape

Waterways and Lifeways

Agriculture and Cultural Patterns

Symbiosis and Community

2. Hispanic Patterns: Community and Authority

“Apportion Water Justly and Fairly,”

Lessons in Survival

Misjudgments

Royal Authority and Community Rights

Community Obligations

Community Rights and Private Rights

When Rights Collide: Bien Procumunal

The Darker Side

3. The American Takeover: Laissez-Faire, Localism, and Monopoly

American Political Culture

"First in Time, First in Right,"

Hydraulicking and Environmental Destruction

The Politics of Flood Control

Riparian Rights

Monopoly and a Clash of Rights

Lux v. Haggin and the California Doctrine

The Irrigation District and the Persistence of Monopoly

Localism and the Search for Alternatives

The Rainmakers

The Progressive Impulse: From Laissez-Faire to Centralized Planning

Toward the Reclamation Act

4. Urban Imperialism: A Tale of Two Cities

Los Angeles: From Hispanic Village to American City

San Francisco: Instant City with an Instant Water Problem

A Comparison of Two Cities

5. Hydraulic Society Triumphant: The Great Projects

The Boulder Canyon Project

The Central Valley Project

The State Water Project

6. Hydraulic Society on the Defensive

Arizona v. California

The Environmental Movement

The Peripheral Canal Fight: Round One

The Peripheral Canal Fight: Round Two

The Pueblo Water Right Challenged

Mono Lake and the Public Trust Doctrine

Owens Valley War: Renewed and Cooled But Not Over

The Fight for the Right to Instream Use

An Increasingly Vulnerable Southland

7. Water Policy at a Crossroads

Tradition versus Reform: The Fate of the Stanislaus River

New and Old Challenges to Dams and Levees

Environmental Crisis: Bay, Delta, and CALFED

Environmental Crisis: Central Valley

Environmental Crisis: Southern California

Subsidized Agriculture and Social Inequity

Water Marketing: Hope, Threat, and Challenge

The Quest for Security and Equity

Open Spaces and Farmland: Going, Going, . . .

A Confusion of Laws

Chaotic Management

Calls for Reform, Fanciful and Otherwise

8. Reflections

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

0-520-92529-7

OCLC:

1224279466