Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Why Western Water A to Z?
Introduction
The Organization of Western Water A to Z
About the Photography
What Is the American West?
History of the West and Its Environment: A Land of Scarcity?
Conquest
Prior Appropriation and the Institutions of Water Management
Water Development
Part 2: Western Water A to Z
Abbey, Edward - Avanyu
Bank - Buy and Dry
California State Water Project - Cubic Feet per Second
Debris Flows - Dust Storms
Echo Park Controversy - Evaportranspiration
Fish Hatcheries - Fracking
Gages and Water Measuring - Groundwater
Hayden, Car - Hydropower
Indigenous Water Rights - Irrigation
Lahontan Cutthroat Trout - Losing Stream
Mead, Elwood - Mulholland, William
National Environmental Policy Act - Nonpoint Source Pollution
Outlet Works - Oxbow
Parker Dam - Powell, John Wesley
Rafting - Russian Olive
Salinity - Stream Narrowing
Tamarisk - Turf Grass
Union Colony - US Army Corps of Engineers
Virtual Water
Water Buffalo - Windmill
Yellowstone Lake - Yield
Zybach, Frank, andCenter Pivot Irrigation
Part 3: Thinking About Western Water in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index