A ditch in time : the city, the west, and water
Record details
- OCLC: ocn799769937
- ISBN: 1555913660
- ISBN: 9781555913663
- ISBN: 155591764X
- ISBN: 9781555917647
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiii, 327 pages)
remote - Publisher: Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Publishing, 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents: | PART ONE -- 1. Engineered Eden -- 2. Go Take It from the Mountain -- PART TWO -- 3. Water Development: "The Plot Thickens" -- 4. Dealing in Diversions -- 5. A Horrifying Jigsaw Puzzle -- 6. No Country for Old Habits -- 7. Chipping Away at Tradition -- CONCLUSION: Turning Hindsight into Foresight -- AFTERWORD: Two Decades at a Western Water Utility. |
Summary: | A study of water and its unique role and history in the West, as well as in the nation. |
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Subject: | Water resources development -- Colorado -- Denver -- History Denver (Colo.). -- Water Department -- History |
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