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The man who thought he owned water : on the brink with American farms, cities, and food / Tershia D'Elgin.
Author
D'Elgin, Tershia
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]
Description
xi, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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GE195.9 .D45 2016
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Subject(s)
Women environmentalists
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Colorado
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Biography
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Water resources development
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Colorado
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History
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Water-supply, Rural
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Colorado
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History
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D'Elgin, Tershia
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Autobiographies
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Summary note
"A story of her small family farm in Colorado with history of water policy in the state and the science and law of water resources in the West. Addressing the deepening need for urban-rural cooperation, dispelling misconceptions and shares essential background knowledge about farms, food and water"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280).
Contents
Thirst for the known
The nuisance of hindsight
Growing up to be cowboys
the soggy verge
Banging a gavel in water
The inscrutable hitch of above and below
Hypocrisy, in a kernel
Moving against the grain
Brokers of the apocalypse
Vagaries of basins
The perfect drought
Poseidon revisits the platte
At the Not-O.K.Corral
Let them eat turf
The taste of plunder
Near-death experience
American gothic
Evade the reaper
Daughter in the dell
Past the end of our hoses.
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ISBN
9781607324959 ((pbk.))
1607324954 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2015042582
OCLC
932116040
Other standard number
99969192668
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