A Story that Stands Like a Dam
Author | : Russell Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Russell Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Russell Martin |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1992-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780517095751 |
Author | : Kevin Fedarko |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2014-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439159866 |
The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.
Author | : Perfection Learning Corporation |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781663608192 |
Author | : James Lawrence Powell |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780520254770 |
Writing for a wide audience, Powell shows us exactly why an urgent threat during the first half of the twenty-first century will come not from the rising of the seas but from the falling of the reservoirs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Robert W. Righter |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2005-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195149475 |
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Author | : Stephen Grace |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 076278587X |
In the scramble to claim water rights in the West during the fevered days of early emigration and expansion, running out of water was rarely a concern, and the dam building fever that transformed the West in the 19th and 20th centuries created a map of the region that may be unsustainable. Throughout the arid American West, metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver need water. These cities are growing, but water supplies are dwindling. Scientists agree that the West is heating up and drying out, leading to future water shortages that will pose a challenge to existing laws. Dam Nation looks first to the past, to the stories of the California gold rush and the earliest attempts by men to shape the landscape and tame it, takes us to the “Great American Desert” and the settlement of the west under the theory that "rain follows the plow," and then takes on the ongoing legal and moral battles in the West. Author Stephen Grace, is a novelist, a storyteller, and the author of several non-fiction books on Colorado. He weaves the facts into a compelling narrative that informs, entertains, and tells an important story.
Author | : Gary Hansen |
Publisher | : WetDesert |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2007-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 097935210X |
Grant Stevens, a mid-level manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, only wanted to build dams. He never imagined he would be swept into a desperate race against an environmental terrorist bent on restoring the Colorado River by blowing up the dams. Left temporarily in charge of the Bureau, Grant must react when the first dam is attacked. He faces the unthinkable task of mitigating the massive flood roaring down the Colorado. The flood will eventually threaten the mighty Hoover Dam, and if Hoover fails, the other dams downstream will fall like dominos. Working with the FBI, Grant uses his engineering skills, river knowledge, and plenty of gut instinct in an attempt to outmaneuver the terrorist. The chase will lead all the way downstream to the Gulf of California in a cat and mouse game where the stakes are high and the potential for destruction is enormous.
Author | : David Owen |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0698189906 |
“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.
Author | : Kelly Milner Halls |
Publisher | : Cherry Lake |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1624317227 |
This book relays the factual details of the story of the Hoover Dam, which was built in the 1930s. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a Colorado River explorer, a dam worker, and a dam worker's daughter. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.