Water Politics in Northern Nevada: A Century of Struggle, Second Edition

by Leah J. Wilds

Book Overview

In northwestern Nevada, the waters of the Truckee, Carson, and Walker river systems are fought over by competing interests: agriculture, industry, Native Americans and newer residents, and environmentalists. Much of the conflict was caused by the Newlands Project, completed in 1915, the earliest federal water reclamation scheme. Diverting these waters destroyed vital wetlands, polluted groundwater, nearly annihilated the cui-ui and the Lahontan cutthroat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874179513
• ISBN13: 9780874179514
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 7.8"