All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics

by Christian S Harrison, Christian S. Harrison, Harrison

Book Overview

As the population of the greater Las Vegas area grows and the climate warms, the threat of a water shortage looms over southern Nevada. But as Christian S. Harrison demonstrates in All the Water the Law Allows, the threat of shortage arises not from the local environment but from the American legal system, specifically the Law of the River that governs water allocation from the Colorado River. In this political and legal history of the Las Vegas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806192283
• ISBN13: 9780806192284
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"