Drowning the Dream: California's Water Choices at the Millennium Carle, David

Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life. In the last one hundred years, land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism have dramatically altered both urban and rural communities across the entire state. The key has been water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River and, finally, Northern California rivers. "Whoever brings the water, brings the people" wrote engineer William Mulholland, whose leadership began the process of water irrigating unlimited growth. Using first-person voices of Californians to reveal the resulting changes, Carle concludes that the new millennium may be the time to stop drowning the California dream.

DOI: 10.1336/0275967190 Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C6719.aspx

Drowning the Dream: California's Water Choices at the Millennium Hardback, 256 pages, $91.95 Copyright ©2000, Praeger Publishers ISBN: 0-275-96719-0 DOI: 10.1336/0275967190

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