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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition book cover by Marc Reisner
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

by Marc Reisner

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Paperback · 672 pages Penguin Publishing Group · 1993

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Cadillac Desert

“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023

"The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek


The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage.

This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Author
Marc Reisner
Format
Paperback
Published
Jun 1, 1993
ISBN-13
9780140178241
ISBN-10
0140178244
Pages
672
Carton quantity
24 copies
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