Conflict on the Rio Grande: Water and the Law, 1879-1939

by Douglas R. Littlefield

Book Overview

The history of the Rio Grande since the late nineteenth century reflects the evolution of water-resource management in the West. It was here that the earliest interstate and international water-allocation problems pitted irrigators in southern New Mexico against farmers downstream in El Paso and Juarez, with the voluntary resolution of that conflict setting important precedents for national and international water law. In this first scholarly treatment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806139986
• ISBN13: 9780806139982
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.8"