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02491aam a2200409 i 4500 001 19DAFFD078F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 210128t20212021okuab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2021003507 020 $a 080616932X 020 $a 9780806169323 035 $a (OCoLC)1238129792 040 $a NmSSL/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d GWL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-nv 050 00 $a KFN1046 $b .H37 2021 100 1 $a Harrison, Christian S., $d 1974- $e author. 245 10 $a All the water the law allows : $b Las Vegas and Colorado River politics / $c Christian S. Harrison. 264 1 $a Norman : $b University of Oklahoma Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xv, 249 pages : $b illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a The environment in modern North America ; $v volume 6 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index. 505 0 $a Legal limits, environmental misperceptions -- Las Vegas before the Law of the River -- Accepting the Law of the River -- 1989: an era of limits and the politics of scarcity -- The paradigm shift: becoming a metropolitan water agency -- Regime change: becoming the voice of Nevada -- Bringing power to bear: emergence of a regional strategy -- The last, worst option: the SNWA in-state groundwater development project -- A new regional paradigm: the Colorado River Basin Authority 520 $a "Examines how natural and legal limitations to water spurred the creation of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, a unique water agency imbued with local, county, and state level authority, and how this agency made Las Vegas a major actor in the politics of the Colorado River"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Southern Nevada Water Authority $x History. 610 27 $a Southern Nevada Water Authority. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00740442 650 0 $a Water rights $z Las Vegas $z Las Vegas $x History. 650 0 $a Water rights $z Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) $x History. 650 7 $a Water rights. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01172066 651 7 $a Nevada $z Las Vegas. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204935 651 7 $a North America $z Colorado River Watershed. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01264747 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Environment in modern North America ; $v v. 6. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014839.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=19DAFFD078F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search