Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West

by John Fleck

Book Overview

"Illuminating." --New York Times

WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016

When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper headlines have screamed, "Scarce water and the death of California farms," "The Dust Bowl returns," "A 'megadrought' will grip U.S. in the coming decades." Yet similar stories have been appearing for decades and the taps continue to flow. John Fleck...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1642830119
• ISBN13: 9781642830118
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"