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Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project
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Pages: 401
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-27 - Publisher: University of Nevada Press

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This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty mi
The Central Valley Project
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1942 - Publisher:

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Description of the water systems in the Central Valley, the effects of floods and droughts, and the dams built to control the water supply. Intended for school
The Great Central Valley
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Pages: 278
Authors: Gerald W. Haslam
Categories: CALIFORNIA.
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Explores the natural and social history of California's agricultural heartland. This book celebrates the tenacious people of the Valley, where hard work and ing
The Dreamt Land
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Authors: Mark Arax
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-21 - Publisher: Vintage

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A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wroug
The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Philip Garone
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-03 - Publisher: University of California Press

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This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critic