| Description |
1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A modest proposal: Public ownership for the public good -- Public order vs. Private gain -- Making their own way -- Living through lean times -- Facing the new -- Moving on. |
| Summary |
Wyoming's colorful story of water management illuminates the powerful forces that impact water use in the rural American West. The state's rich history of managing this valuable natural resource provides insights and lessons for the twenty-first-century American West as it faces drought and climate change. 'Public Waters' shows how, as popular hopes and dreams meet tough terrain, a central idea that has historically structured water management can guide water policy for Western states today. Drawing on forty years as a journalist with training in water law and economics, Anne MacKinnon paints a lively picture of the arcane twists in the notable record of water law in Wyoming. She maintains that other Western states should examine how local people control water and that states must draw on historical understandings of water as a public resource to find effective approaches to essential water issues in the West. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Water-supply -- Government policy -- West (U.S.)
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Water utilities -- Government policy -- West (U.S.)
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Water-supply -- Wyoming.
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Water quality -- Wyoming.
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Water-supply |
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Water quality |
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Water-supply -- Government policy |
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Water utilities -- Government policy |
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Wyoming https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJk4DBFyx99v9QWCjhMMfq |
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West United States |
| Other Form: |
Print version: MacKinnon, Anne. Public waters. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2021 0826362419 9780826362414 (OCoLC)1201673915 |
| ISBN |
9780826362421 electronic book |
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0826362427 electronic book |
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0826362419 |
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9780826362414 |
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