All the water the law allows : Las Vegas and Colorado River politics / Christian S. Harrison.
"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"--
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| Language: | English |
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Environment in modern North America ;
v. 6. |
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Table of 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.