Managing Water: Avoiding Crisis in California
by Dorothy Green
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Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and understanding this system is not easy. This book describes how the current system works (or doesn't work) and discusses the issues that face elected officials, water and resource managers, and the general public. Using the Los Angeles area as a microcosm of the state, environmental activist Dorothy Green gathers detailed information show more on its water systems and applies the lessons learned from this data statewide. A useful primer on watershed and water policy issues, this book provides reasoned, thoughtful, and insightful arguments about sustainability. show lessTags
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13 Works 49 Members
Dorothy Green is founding president of Heal the Bay and among the founders of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council, of which she is also president emeritus
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 363.6 — Social sciences Social problems and social services Other social problems and services Public utilities and related services
- LCC
- TD224 .C3 .G74 — Technology Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
