Layperson's Guide to the Delta
Layperson's Guide to the Delta

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781619480223

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A 24-page booklet that provides an overview of the history, challenges and issues involving water in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project
Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project

Author: Tim Stroshane

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 087417001X

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This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights to the river. Their rights descend from the days of the Miller & Lux Cattle Company, which amassed an empire of land and water from the 1850s through the 1920s and protected these assets through business deals and prolific litigation. Miller & Lux’s dominance of the river relied on what many in the San Joaquin Valley regarded as wasteful irrigation practices and unreasonable water usage. Economic and political power in California’s present water system was born of this monopoly on water control. Stroshane tells how drought and legal conflict shaped statewide economic development and how the grand bargain of a San Joaquin River water exchange was struck from this monopoly legacy, setting the stage for future water wars. His analysis will appeal to readers interested in environmental studies and public policy.

Delta Life
Delta Life

Author: Franz Krause

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781800734166

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Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents 'delta life' with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops 'delta life' as a metaphor for approaching continual and intersecting sociocultural, economic and material transformations more widely. The book revolves around questions of hydrosociality, volatility, rhythms and scale. It thereby yields insights into people's lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide.

The State Water Plan
The State Water Plan

Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Environmental Resources. Bureau of Resources Programming

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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Engineering Within Ecological Constraints
Engineering Within Ecological Constraints

Author: National Academy of Engineering

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1996-03-22

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 030917645X

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Engineering within Ecological Constraints presents a rare dialogue between engineers and environmental scientists as they consider the many technical as well as social and legal challenges of ecologically sensitive engineering. The volume looks at the concepts of scale, resilience, and chaos as they apply to the points where the ecological life support system of nature interacts with the technological life support system created by humankind. Among the questions addressed are: What are the implications of differences between ecological and engineering concepts of efficiency and stability? How can engineering solutions to immediate problems be made compatible with long-term ecological concerns? How can we transfer ecological principles to economic systems? The book also includes important case studies on such topics as water management in southern Florida and California and oil exploration in rain forests. From its conceptual discussions to the practical experience reflected in case studies, this volume will be important to policymakers, practitioners, researchers, educators, and students in the fields of engineering, environmental science, and environmental policy.