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Water and agriculture in Colorado and the American West : first in line for the Rio Grande / David Stiller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stiller, David, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water in agriculture--History--Colorado.
- Water in agriculture.
- Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)--Water rights.
- Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Place of Publication:
- Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Water and Agriculture in Colorado and the American West: First in Line for the Rio Grande is a chronicle of drought and water shortages throughout the rapidly growing American West, where long-established agricultural water rights play an increasingly critical role in problematic attempts to satisfy agricultural and urban needs in the region"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The river, the valley, and early customs with water
- Mining and farming : one fed the other
- A doctrine for water takes shape
- Agriculture settles in
- Era of bonanza farming
- The role and importance of storage
- Making an aquifer
- The compact and the closed basin
- Competing interests butt heads
- A fire and a kitchen sink
- Crisis in the valley
- Collaboration as an economic and cultural tool
- Elsewhere in Colorado and the West
- A new normal.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781948908801
- 1948908808
- OCLC:
- 1221015729
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