Water in the 21st-Century West: A High Country News Reader - Softcover

Miller, Char

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870715666 ISBN 13: 9780870715662

Publisher: Oregon State University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Water in the 21st-Century West offers a timely look at the central issue facing the American West—the region’s diminishing water supply. It collects the best reporting on the subject, drawn from the pages of High Country News, the newspaper that sets the standard for coverage of environmental issues in the West. This book provides compelling perspectives on the water issues and controversies that roil the region, from the Pacific Northwest to the Great Plains, from the interior mountains to the southwestern deserts. The book’s contributors—among them activists, scholars, scientists, and many of the nation’s finest environmental journalists—offer hardhitting analyses of regional dilemmas, including the unpredictable impact of climate change; intense debates over decommissioning dams; emerging Native American water power; toxic threats to groundwater quality; and the escalating urban demands for water in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Denver, Salt Lake City, and the Bay Area. Water in the 21st-Century West captures the range and nature of the arguments that have defined water politics in the region over the past decade. The collection probes the issues and explores creative attempts to find solutions, bringing a focus and clarity to the most contentious environmental issue the West faces. Water in the 21st-Century West will be an essential primer in assessing and mapping the West’s water future.

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Water in the 21st-Century West captures the range and nature of the arguments that have defined water politics in the region over the past decade. The collection probes the issues and explores creative attempts to find solutions, bringing a focus and clarity to the most contentious environmental issue the West faces. Water in the 21st-Century West will be an essential primer in assessing and mapping the West’s water future.

About the Author:

Char Miller teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio and is visiting professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College, Claremont, California. He has written and edited numerous books including Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land and Life in South Texas, Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, and Fluid Arguments: Water in the AmericanWest. High Country News, whose masthead reads “For People Who Care about the West,” is published biweekly in Paonia, Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0870715666
• ISBN 13: 9780870715662
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312