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100 1 _aPowell, James Lawrence,
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245 1 0 _aDead Pool :
_bLake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West /
_cJames Lawrence Powell.
250 _aReprint 2020.
264 1 _aBerkeley, CA :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c�2008
300 _a1 online resource (425 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --
_tPART ONE. River of Surprise --
_tONE. The Dam Is Not Going to Break --
_tTWO. Playing Dice with Nature --
_tPART TWO. River of Empire --
_tTHREE. Appointment in Samarra --
_tFOUR. One Simple Fact --
_tFIVE. The Reality of Empire --
_tSIX. This Vast Plain of Opulent Soil --
_tSEVEN. Lonely Lands Made Fruitful --
_tPART THREE. River of Controversy --
_tEIGHT. Natural Menace Becomes National Resource --
_tNINE. Shall We Let Them Ruin Our National Parks? --
_tTEN. We Want to Be Dammed --
_tELEVEN. To Have a Deep Blue Lake --
_tTWELVE. The Biggest Boondoggle --
_tPART FOUR. River of Limits --
_tTHIRTEEN. Time Machines --
_tFOURTEEN. A New Climatology --
_tFIFTEEN. Rainmakers --
_tSIXTEEN. Let People in the Future Worry about It --
_tSEVENTEEN. A Hundred Green Lagoons --
_tPART FIVE. River of Tomorrow --
_tEIGHTEEN. River of Law --
_tNINETEEN. The West against Itself --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tNOTES --
_tINDEX
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Apr 2021).
520 _aWhere will the water come from to sustain the great desert cities of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix? In a provocative exploration of the past, present, and future of water in the West, James Lawrence Powell begins at Lake Powell, the vast reservoir that has become an emblem of this story. At present, Lake Powell is less than half full. Bathtub rings ten stories tall encircle its blue water; boat ramps and marinas lie stranded and useless. To refill it would require surplus water--but there is no surplus: burgeoning populations and thirsty crops consume every drop of the Colorado River. Add to this picture the looming effects of global warming and drought, and the scenario becomes bleaker still. Dead Pool, featuring rarely seen historical photographs, explains why America built the dam that made Lake Powell and others like it and then allowed its citizens to become dependent on their benefits, which were always temporary. Writing for a wide audience, Powell shows us exactly why an urgent threat during the first half of the twenty-first century will come not from the rising of the seas but from the falling of the reservoirs.
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650 0 _aGlobal warming
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650 0 _aWater-supply
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651 0 _aColorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
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651 0 _aGlen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)
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651 0 _aPowell, Lake (Utah and Ariz.)
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651 6 _aColorado (Col.-Mexique : Fleuve)
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651 6 _aGlen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)
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651 7 _aNorth America
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651 7 _aUnited States
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