Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.
Contents:
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
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
The environment in modern North America ; volume 6
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