Title The man who thought he owned water : on the brink with American farms, cities, and food / Tershia d'Elgin.

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Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Summary	"A story of her small family farm in Colorado with history of water policy in the state and the science and law of water resources in the West. Addressing the deepening need for urban-rural cooperation, dispelling misconceptions and shares essential background knowledge about farms, food and water"--Provided by publisher.
Contents	Prologue; 1. Thirst for the Known; 2. The Nuisance of Hindsight; 3. Growing Up to Be Cowboys; 4. The Soggy Verge; 5. Banging a Gavel in Water; 6. The Inscrutable Hitch of Above and Below; 7. Hypocrisy, in a Kernel; 8. Moving against the Grain; 9. Brokers of the Apocalypse; 10. Vagaries of Basins; 11. The Perfect Drought; 12. Poseidon Revisits the Platte; 13. At the Not-O.K. Corral; 14. Let Them Eat Turf; 15. The Taste of Plunder; 16. Near-Death Experience; 17. American Gothic; 18. Evade the Reaper; 19. Daughter in the Dell; 20. Past the End of Our Hoses; Notes; Glossary.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	D'Elgin, Tershia.
	D'Elgin, Tershia.
	Women environmentalists -- Colorado -- Biography.
	Women environmentalists.
	Colorado.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Water resources development -- Colorado -- History.
	Water resources development.
	Water-supply, Rural -- Colorado -- History.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
	History.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
	Water-supply, Rural.
	NATURE -- Natural Resources.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.
Other Form:	Print version: D'Elgin, Tershia. Man who thought he owned water. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016] 9781607324959 (DLC) 2015042582 (OCoLC)932116040
ISBN	9781607324966 (electronic book)
	1607324962 (electronic book)
	9781607324959
	1607324954

Title The man who thought he owned water : on the brink with American farms, cities, and food / Tershia d'Elgin.

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