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Tables of Contents for Water in the West
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Water Pressure: An Introduction
1
8
Char Miller
History
9
26
River Basins and Closed Basins of the West
11
1
The Politics of Western Water Have Changed Forever
12
4
Dan Luecke
West's Grand Old Water Doctrine Dies
16
12
Charles F. Wilkinson
The Fight for Reclamation
28
7
Marc Reisner
The Salmon Crisis
35
44
How the Basin's Salmon-killing System Works
36
12
Pat Ford
The Salmon Win One: Judge Tells Agencies to Obey the Law
48
6
Paul Larmer
Salmon: The Clinton-Babbitt Trainwreck
54
Pat Ford
Northwest Is Asked to Give up Eighteen Dams
43
14
Paul Koberstein
Changing Times Force Agency to Swim Upstream
57
4
Paul Larmer
An Idaho Daily Breaches the Northwest Silence over Tearing down Dams
61
3
Susan Whaley
Unleashing the Snake
64
15
Paul Larmer
Taming Glen Canyon Dam
79
64
How Lake Powell Almost Broke Free of Glen Canyon Dam this Summer
80
13
T.J. Wolf
The Grand Canyon is Just Another Turbine
93
7
Dennis Brownridge
Steve Hinchman
Government Tames Its Wild, Destructive Dam
100
5
Florence Williams
Indian Tribe Pushes for a Natural River and Canyon
105
2
Florence Williams
Welcome Floaters, to River City
107
3
Daniel McCool
Glen Canyon: Using a Dam to Heal a River
110
13
George Sibley
A Tale of Two Rivers: The Desert Empire and the Mountain
123
20
George Sibley
Federal Water Projects
143
54
Central Arizona Project
143
1
Arizona Digs Deep for Water
144
7
Douglas Towne
Arizona's Water Disaster
151
6
Tony Davis
Arizonans Quarrel over CAP While California Waits
157
2
Tony Davis
Re: CAP
159
2
Tony Davis
Central Utah Project
161
1
After Decades of Trying, Opponents Get the Central Utah Project into the Ring
162
9
Ed Marston
Why Utah Wants ``the Bureau Out''
171
15
Steve Hinchman
The Northern Utes' Long Water Ordeal
186
7
Daniel McCool
The CUP: A Project in Search of a Purpose
193
4
Daniel McCool
Urban Water Projects
197
48
Denver's Two Forks Dam
197
1
Two Forks Proposal Has Roused Western Colorado
198
5
Steve Hinchman
EPA to Denver: Wake up and Smell the Coffee
203
5
Steve Hinchman
Water Development Turns a Corner
208
7
Dyan Zaslowsky
Ripples Grow When a Dam Dies
215
8
Ed Marston
Las Vegas Mirage
223
1
Water Forces Las Vegas to Choose: Gaming Town or Suburb of Los Angeles?
224
9
Jon Christensen
Las Vegas Seeks Watery Jackpot in Northern Nevada
233
2
Jon Christensen
Las Vegas Wheels and Deals for Colorado River Water
235
7
Jon Christensen
Water and the Future of Las Vegas
242
3
Hal Rothman
Native American Water Issues
245
32
West Faces a Time Bomb
246
2
Steve Hinchman
Wyoming Tribes Lose Again in Court
248
3
Katherine Collins
Debra Thunder
Water: Fear of Supreme Court Leads Tribes to Accept an Adverse Decision
251
4
Katherine Collins
Sometimes the Feds Do Pinch Pennies
255
7
Judith Jacobsen
The Pick-Sloan Plan's ``Shameful Legacy''
262
2
Peter Carrels
Tribe Wins Back Stolen Water
264
8
James Bishop, Jr.
The River Comes Last
272
5
George Ochenski
Watershed Restoration
277
30
Bringing Back the Range
278
5
Jim Stiak
Incarcerated River May Be Paroled
283
3
Angus M. Thuermer, Jr.
Raising a Ranch from the Dead
286
10
Ed Marston
A River Becomes a Raw Nerve
296
11
Michelle Nijhuis
Water Allocation and Management
307
28
Water Marketing Is Becoming Respectable
308
3
Steve Hinchman
Irrigation Water Revives a Wildlife Refuge in Nevada
311
4
Steve Hinchman
A Shrewd Farmer Drips His Way to Prosperity
315
3
Tony Davis
Albuquerque Learns It Really Is a Desert Town
318
9
Bruce Selcraig
No More Ignoring the Obvious: Idaho Sucks Itself Dry
327
8
Steve Stuebner
Afterword
335
5
Ed Marston
Notes on Authors
340
2
Index
342