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Contents......Page 7
Water Pressure: An Introduction......Page 10
1 History......Page 18
River Basins and Closed Basins of the West......Page 20
The Politics of Western Water Have Changed Forever......Page 21
West\'s Grand Old Water Doctrine Dies......Page 25
The Fight for Reclamation......Page 37
2 The Salmon Crisis......Page 44
How the Basin\'s Salmon-killing System Works......Page 45
The Salmon Win One: Judge Tells Agencies to Obey the Law......Page 52
Salmon: The Clinton-Babbitt Trainwreck......Page 58
Northwest Is Asked to Give up Eighteen Dams......Page 61
Changing Times Force Agency to Swim Upstream......Page 66
An Idaho Daily Breaches the Northwest\'s Silence over Tearing Down Dams......Page 70
Unleashing the Snake......Page 73
3. Taming Glen Canyon......Page 88
How Lake Powell Almost Broke Free of Glen Canyon Dam this Summer......Page 89
The Grand Canyon is Just Another Turbine......Page 102
Government Tames Its Wild, Destructive Dam......Page 109
Indian Tribe Pushes for a Natural River and Canyon......Page 114
Welcome Floaters, to River City......Page 116
Glen Canyon: Using a Dam to Heal a River......Page 119
A Tale of Two Rivers: The Desert Empire and the Mountain......Page 132
Central Arizona Project......Page 152
Arizona Digs Deep for Water......Page 153
Arizona\'s Water Disaster......Page 160
Arizonans Quarrel over CAP While California Waits......Page 166
Re: CAP......Page 168
Central Utah Project......Page 170
After Decades of Trying, Opponents Get the Central Utah Project into the Ring......Page 171
Why Utah Wants \"the Bureau Out\"......Page 180
The Northern Utes\' Long Water Ordeal......Page 195
The CUP: A Project in Search of a Purpose......Page 202
Denver\'s Two Forks Dam......Page 206
Two Forks Proposal Has Roused Western Colorado......Page 207
EPA to Denver: Wake up and Smell the Coffee......Page 212
Water Development Turns a Corner......Page 217
Ripples Grow When a Dam Dies......Page 224
Las Vegas Mirage......Page 232
Water Forces Las Vegas to Choose: Gaming Town or Suburb of Los Angeles?......Page 233
Las Vegas Seeks Watery Jackpot in Northern Nevada......Page 242
Las Vegas Wheels and Deals for Colorado River Water......Page 244
Water and the Future of Las Vegas......Page 251
6 Native American Water Issues......Page 254
West Faces a Time Bomb......Page 255
Wyoming Tribes Lose Again in Court......Page 257
Water: Fear of Supreme Court Leads Tribes to Accept an Adverse Decision......Page 260
Sometimes the Feds Do Pinch Pennies......Page 264
The Pick-Sloan Plan\'s \"Shameful Legacy\"......Page 271
Tribe Wins Back Stolen Water......Page 273
The River Comes Last......Page 281
7 Watershed Restoration......Page 286
Bringing Back the Range......Page 287
Incarcerated River May Be Paroled......Page 292
Raising a Ranch from the Dead......Page 295
A River Becomes a Raw Nerve......Page 305
8 Water Allocation and Management......Page 316
Water Marking Is Becoming Respectable......Page 317
Irrigation Water Revives a Wildlife Refuge in Nevada......Page 320
A Shrewd Farmer Drips His Way to Prosperity......Page 324
Albuquerque Learns It Really Is a Desert Town......Page 327
No More Ignoring the Obvious: Idaho Sucks Itself Dry......Page 336
Afterword......Page 344
Notes on Authors......Page 349
B......Page 351
C......Page 352
E......Page 353
G......Page 354
J......Page 355
M......Page 356
P......Page 357
S......Page 358
U......Page 360
Z......Page 361