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Beyond Chinatown

The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California

Autor: Steven P. Erie
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Stanford University Press
Disponibilitate: Retipărire preconizată
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668.65 lei
As urban growth outstrips water supplies, how can the global challenge of providing "liquid gold" be...

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Autor
Steven P. Erie
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2006
Pagini
384
EAN
9780804751391
ISBN
0804751390
Enbook ID
04717908
Editura
Stanford University Press
Greutate
621
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 26

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As urban growth outstrips water supplies, how can the global challenge of providing "liquid gold" be met? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie tells the compelling story of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) - one of the world's largest and most important public water agencies - and its role in building the world's 8th largest economy in a semi-desert. No tawdry tale of secret backroom conspiracies - as depicted in the famed film noir Chinatown - this fresh telling concerns an unheralded regional institution, its entrepreneurial public leadership, and pioneering policymaking. Using untapped primary sources, the author re-examines this great regional experiment from its obscure 1920s-era origins, through the Colorado River Aqueduct and State Water Projects, to today's daunting mission of drought management, water quality, environmental stewardship, and post-9/11 supply security. A key focus is MWD's navigation of recent epic water battles: San Diego's combative quest for water independence from MWD and L.A.; lingering conflicts over the Colorado River and northern California's fragile Bay-Delta ecosystem; and the myriad challenges posed by water markets, privatization, and water transfers. Facing unprecedented challenges, MWD is devising innovative formulas to sustain this improbable desert civilization. "Beyond Chinatown" concludes by considering MWD's Integrated Resources Plan as a global model for water-resources planning and management, water supply diversification and reliability, affordability, and environmental sustainability. Chinatown's seductive mythologies have obscured MWD's authentic, instructive history and lessons.

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