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• catalog abstract ""The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's history, with additional photographs and descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b12121190.
• catalog coverage "California History.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's history, with additional photographs and descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "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 -- Legerdemain and the Pueblo water right -- Girding for expansion : municipal control -- The Owens Valley caper -- An aqueduct for the future -- The San Fernando Valley : insider information for private gain -- Los Angeles's water colonies -- The tragedy and legacy of the expert : William Muholland -- San Francisco : instant city with an instant water problem -- Hetch Hetchy predicaments : the federal government and Boss Ruef -- Hetch Hetchy embattled -- Toward a utilitarian triumph -- The ironies of victory -- A comparison of two cities.".
• catalog description "5. Hydraulic society triumphant : the great projects -- The Boulder Canyon project -- The Imperial Valley impulse -- The Colorado River compact -- New players and new battles -- Compromises and enactment -- The Imperial Valley and the betrayal of reclamation law -- New water and accelerated urbanization -- The Central Valley project -- Progressive era promise and disappointment -- Toward a state plan -- American political culture and the Central Valley project -- From state to federal project -- A project at last -- The battle over acreage limitation -- "Technical compliance" : a bipartisan legacy -- Public versus private power -- The state water project -- A state plan -- fragmentation, compromise and confusion -- New water, growth, and inequities -- 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.".
• catalog description "7. Water policy at a crossroads -- Tradition versus reform : the fate of the Stanislaus River -- New and old challenges to dams and levees -- Dams at risk -- The impermanence of dams : earthquakes, silt, neglect, and flawed planning -- Los Angeles : a vexing in dams, levees, floods and public policy -- Vulnerable levees and the delta -- 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 Imperial Valley, MWD, and the market -- The Imperial Valley, MWD, San Diego, and the market -- The Wheeling-rate war : MWD and San Diego -- The government intercedes -- One war down, another to go -- The Central Valley project, "reform," and the market -- MWD, the San Joaquin Valley, and the market -- 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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-[762]) and index.".
• catalog extent "xxiii, 799 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0520224558 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0520224566 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "California History.".
• catalog spatial "California".
• catalog subject "333.91/009794 21".
• catalog subject "HD1694.C2 H83 2001".
• catalog subject "Water-supply California History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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 -- Legerdemain and the Pueblo water right -- Girding for expansion : municipal control -- The Owens Valley caper -- An aqueduct for the future -- The San Fernando Valley : insider information for private gain -- Los Angeles's water colonies -- The tragedy and legacy of the expert : William Muholland -- San Francisco : instant city with an instant water problem -- Hetch Hetchy predicaments : the federal government and Boss Ruef -- Hetch Hetchy embattled -- Toward a utilitarian triumph -- The ironies of victory -- A comparison of two cities.".
• catalog tableOfContents "5. Hydraulic society triumphant : the great projects -- The Boulder Canyon project -- The Imperial Valley impulse -- The Colorado River compact -- New players and new battles -- Compromises and enactment -- The Imperial Valley and the betrayal of reclamation law -- New water and accelerated urbanization -- The Central Valley project -- Progressive era promise and disappointment -- Toward a state plan -- American political culture and the Central Valley project -- From state to federal project -- A project at last -- The battle over acreage limitation -- "Technical compliance" : a bipartisan legacy -- Public versus private power -- The state water project -- A state plan -- fragmentation, compromise and confusion -- New water, growth, and inequities -- 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.".
• catalog tableOfContents "7. Water policy at a crossroads -- Tradition versus reform : the fate of the Stanislaus River -- New and old challenges to dams and levees -- Dams at risk -- The impermanence of dams : earthquakes, silt, neglect, and flawed planning -- Los Angeles : a vexing in dams, levees, floods and public policy -- Vulnerable levees and the delta -- 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 Imperial Valley, MWD, and the market -- The Imperial Valley, MWD, San Diego, and the market -- The Wheeling-rate war : MWD and San Diego -- The government intercedes -- One war down, another to go -- The Central Valley project, "reform," and the market -- MWD, the San Joaquin Valley, and the market -- 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.".
• catalog title "The great thirst : Californians and water : a history / Norris Hundley, Jr.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".