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File Size: 24754 KB
Print Length: 674 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0140178244
Publisher: Penguin Books; 2 edition (June 1, 1993)
Publication Date: June 1, 1993
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B001RTKIUA
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This is truly a classic. As we are going through the most severe drought in years, now seemed like a good time to reread this book. It's a little scary at times, and it is a bit of a brick, but it's just brilliantly done. One of the things that makes this book so much fun to read is that Mr. Reisner doesn't just write about the facts. This book is as much or more about the personalities of the players as it is about the water. It's just a truly amazing book.
This 1986 tour de force examines water and dams in the mostly arid Western US. Topics addressed in detail include, but are not limited to, the Army Corp of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, California Aqueduct, California Water Wars, Central Arizona Project, Colorado River, Grand Coulee Dam, Glen Canyon Dam, Hoover Dam, John Wesley Powell, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Mono Lake, Ogallala Aquifer, Owens Valley, Teton Dam, and William Mulholland.Underlying the encyclopedic scope of “Cadillac Desert†are two basic themes.First, the settlers lured to the arid West by the railroads and the US Federal Government in the 19th century needed cheap water to support agriculture on their 160 acre parcels of land, and also for their growing cities such as Los Angeles. Cheap hydroelectric power was often a secondary need, essential to pumping water. This need was met by projects of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers. The projects were generally promoted by local congressmen, who supported each other’s projects. In the long term this endeavor has been subsidized by US taxpayers since return revenues from the projects have generally fallen fall far short of plan.Second, the projects and dams have been an escalating source of controversy. For the most part the projects have not been economically justifiable, especially the irrigation projects, and especially the more recent projects. Also, the dams have created lasting problems -- salination of irrigated soil; silt accumulation behind the dams; environmental devastation to streams, salmon fisheries, and migratory birds; an overstretched US Federal budget, etc. Cheap hydroelectric power has also enabled groundwater pumping which is depleting aquifers. The taxpayer subsidized benefits of cheap water have often gone to large corporate agriculture, not the small farmers for whom the water was intended. By the later part of the 20th century the public sentiment had largely turned away from building ever more dams, and indeed toward removing some of the existing ones.The individual chapters of “Cadillac Desert†are often mesmerizing, instilling a sense of outrage in the civic and history minded reader. The chapter on the 1976 Teton Dam failure is a great example. If the leaders and promoters had thoughtfully considered the economics of the dam, or the geology of the site, the dam would never have been built in the first place. But built it was and fail it did. The spectacularly devastating failure is now used as a case study in engineering courses, providing an example of mistakes at all levels and by all of those involved.While Reisner does seem long winded at times, it is worthwhile staying with “Cadillac Desert†to the end. On one hand, it provides many interrelated perspectives on water and the West. It also ends on a somewhat positive note as the many constituencies involved seem to be converging on a more rational approach to future water usage in the West.
Absolutely fascinating. I lived in California for some 34 years and had no idea as to the history of how Los Angeles got it's water, other than knowing that a good portion came from the Colorado River. This book is thoroughly researched, and deals not just with California but with the water problems and development of the entire U.S. arid West. I had no idea as to the building of the great (and then not so great) dams starting in the late 20's early 1930s, starting with Hoover Dam. Also fascinating treatment as to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the competition with the Corp. of Engineers, and the Congressional pork barrel system that fueled the building of more and more dams and water projects, necessary or not. AND one wonders what will happen as the dams eventually silt up even as the population of cities such as L.A., Phoenix, Tuscon, Denver increase exponentially, as they have and continue to do. Indeed, when I moved to Calif. in 1970 the state's population was about 19 million; today it is about 38 million, DOUBLE that!! And Southern Calif. is basically an arid or at best a semi-arid desert!! This book was written in the late 1980's\early 1990's; one can only surmise how the author would be talking about the extreme Calif. drought now in it's 4th year. Calif gets much of it's water from 'snow-packs', from the Sierra Nevada to the Rockies (which feed the Colorado River). The CA Governor recently stood on bare ground up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and said he should be standing on 5 feet of snow!!! Yet, as the author points out (and I observed living in So. Calif.) the only thing grown in So. Calif. is no longer orange groves, but housing developments (usually in my opinion rather noxious with their same tile roofs, and built 10 ft apart). And they are still going up by the droves on every hill and valley!! The ultimate question is where is the water going to come from to support all this, especially with the effects of climate change, now thought to be at least in part responsible for the current extreme drought??? Anyway, fascinating book (not a short read, for sure) and I learned much as to the development of California and the West. It's all about WATER!!! Harvey (p.s.: I now live back East).
My son's thoughts on this bookSo my earth professor recommended this book to me, so I was skeptical at first, but within the first 20 pages, I was hooked! Marc Reisner does an amazing job of posting arguments, backing them up, and then analyzing them from hindsight about the impact that they really had on water politics in the west. I have never read a book over 200 pages before, so 500 pages were daunting at first, but looking back on it, it was an easy and enjoyable read. I would recommend this book to college students interested in water politics, or ones interested in seeing just how corrupt government agencies can be.
Première lessons in Western Water. It is all a scam to take tax payer dollars and perpetuate the lies at the foundation... Trillions of dollars down the drain for unsustainable and unnecessary water infrastructure. Cadillac Desert is dated, but the corruption underlying the premises of water in the western US remains as distorted now as was then. And the wasteful practices are accelerating! The stench is prevalent from the US Gov all the way through the nice little local water district. This book isa call to mobilize, yet, the chosen path has been to keep shoveling more money on a fundamental mis-truth. Western water as it is concocted is not sustainable and the more money spend trying to prop up a broken concept is just a pipe dream.
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