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Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West

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""Dead Pool "is the best book I know about the current state of the Colorado River and the policy issues facing it."--Donald Worster, author of "Rivers of Empire "

""Dead Pool "offers a powerful epitaph to the era of big dams. Carefully researched and cogently argued, it shows how the self-serving promoters of the Colorado River's dams have consistently ignored natural limits imposed by water supply, silt, and salt, creating a long-term crisis that may make ghost towns out of many of the overpopulated cities of the American West."--Jacques Leslie, author of "Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment"

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Carolyn Keith, May 14, 2009 (view all comments by Carolyn Keith)
This book is a perfect cap to Katie Lee and Ellen Meloy's poignant stories about life on the river and life before the dam. I will work all the harder toward the goal of encouraging work toward the ending of the life of the dam. I toured the dam just after it was built and it make me sick to know what was going to be lost as well as what would be built because of it.
Excellent portrayal of man's mistakes in managing Nature
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ISBN:
9780520254770
Subtitle:
Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West
Author:
Powell, James Lawren
Author:
Powell, James Lawrence
Publisher:
University of California Press
Subject:
History
Subject:
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)
Subject:
Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Subject:
Environmental - Water Supply
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Natural Resources
Subject:
Water-supply
Subject:
Global warming -- Environmental aspects.
Subject:
Water-supply -- West (U.S.)
Publication Date:
January 2009
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Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
283
Dimensions:
9.04x6.30x1.00 in. 1.37 lbs.
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