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Ruling the Waters
Author | : Douglas R. Littlefield |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780806166742 |
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When Europeans first arrived at what is now California’s San Joaquin Valley, they found a vast landscape of wetlands, small ponds, riparian forests, and grasslands surrounding three large swampland lakes. What greets a visitor to the region today is a dramatically different view of mile after mile of row crops, vineyards, orchards, and grazing acreage—some of the most fertile and productive agricultural land in the world. This remarkable transformation, with its enduring consequences, is at the center of Ruling the Waters, a legal, social, and environmental history of how western water law shaped, and was shaped by, the subjugation of the largest freshwater wetlands wildlife habitat in the West. At the heart of efforts to wrest arable land from the region was the Kern River, which rises in the Sierra Nevada and carries snowmelt to what was once a great network of lakes, sloughs, and marshes at the southern end of California’s Central Valley. In Ruling the Waters Douglas R. Littlefield describes how, over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneers and entrepreneurs diverted water out of this network of waterways to extract gold in the mountains and irrigate farms lower down the river, and how the law was made to accommodate these practices. Struggles over the Kern River’s water established one of the most important concepts in water law in some parts of the United States—that prior appropriation, dependent on the chronological order of diversions from waterways, could legally coexist with riparian rights, which restrict water usage to landownership directly next to a river or stream. Littlefield traces this concept to the 1886 California Supreme Court case of Lux v. Haggin—which pitted the giant farming and cattle company of Miller & Lux against a prominent land baron, James B. Haggin—and shows how the lawsuit profoundly shaped future waters issues, which in turn influenced water laws in other western states that were grappling with similar questions. Far from a dry legal history, Ruling the Waters tells a story with world-wide historical environmental ramifications, a tale of competing personalities and values and visions that forever changed both the economy and the ecology of the American West.
Impacts of the Proposed Waters of the United States Rule on State and Local Governments and Stakeholders
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Abuse of administrative power |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105050692925 |
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The Great Lakes Water Wars
Author | : Peter Annin |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-08-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781597266376 |
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The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
The Economics of Water
Author | : Georg Meran,Markus Siehlow,Christian von Hirschhausen |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-09-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9783030484859 |
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This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay between the hydrological cycle and the rules and institutions that govern today’s water allocation policies, the authors develop a modern perspective on water management. Moreover, the book presents an in-depth assessment of the political and ethical dimensions of water management and its institutional embeddedness, by discussing distribution issues and issues of the enforceability of human rights in managing water resources. Given its scope, the book will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics and engineering, as well as practitioners in the water sector, seeking a deeper understanding of economic approaches to the study of water management.
Pilot Rules for Certain Inland Waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Coast and of the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico
Author | : United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Ships |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HL27QR |
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Pilot Rules for the Rivers Whose Waters Flow Into the Gulf of Mexico and Their Tributaries and the Red River of the North
Author | : United States. Coast Guard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Inland navigation |
ISBN | : UOM:39015039403269 |
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Rules and Regulations Relating to the Navigable Waters of the United States
Author | : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Inland navigation |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B97300 |
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Rules and Regulations Relating to the Navigable Waters of the United States
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Maritime law |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105122872224 |
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