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

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

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

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

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