Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy

by Abraham Hoffman

Book Overview

Seventy-five years ago the growing city of Los Angeles, amid considerable conflict, appropriated water from a rural area 250 miles away. Still unresolved, the controversy surrounding the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Aqueduct has long since moved from the personal, even violent level fictionalized in the movie Chinatown to the dry realm of court proceedings, injunctions, and environmental impact reports. But water remains a problem in California,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890965099
• ISBN13: 9780890965092
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"