Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water | 
My sister took me to the new Barnes and Noble in Wicker Park in Chicago as part of my Christmas present. I got a couple of books from her and then finally broke my ban and bought some for myself. The nonfiction are from Barnes and Noble and the fiction are from another bookstore we hit up!
#bookhaul #haul #nonfiction
@EadieB thanks for tag. A day late here. The tagged book gave me a passion for protecting rivers and removing destructive dams. And a shout out to Craig Lesley‘s novel Winterkill that brought up the impact of dams on Indigenous Tribes. 2. I don‘t decorate. Visualize my 30Lb Boston Marrow squash in my garden that will he turned into pies. 3. Young Frankenstein. @Eggs #wondrouswednesday
#7Books7Days. Day 4. Another book that made a big impression! The first few chapters read like a crime novel (tells the real Chinatown story and how L.A. stole a whole lot of water from other people). For the past 22 years I've worked to remove dams that have damaged fisheries, landscapes and violate U.S. Treaties with Native American Tribes. Read this in my 20s and it put me on my path.
🔖 Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
😾 C.J. Cherryh
🎞️ Clash of the Titans (1981, obvs.)
🎤 Sarah Connor
🎶 Closer by Nine Inch Nails
#ManicMonday #LetterC @JoScho
pickDated, but ... well ... quite a read. Reisner was some kind of prophet.
How are everyone‘s holidays going?? I hope you are having fun and getting some time to relax. I got a book recommendation from my brother‘s friend yesterday. As a desert woman, it looks cool! #environment #water #naturalresources #Arizona #newmexico
pickThe book I was listening to on audiobook and yet another which makes you question human nature. A history of water, water rights and dam infrastructure in the American West. A tale of greed, corruption and hubris as regions were irrigated which should not have been irrigated, of dams developed for political rather than practical reasons, of ongoing land degradation and an overriding consideration of to little water and too many uses.
#90sinJuly #NoRain
Jumping into the photo challenge a little late! Hope I can keep up with them this month!
The first book to come to mind for this prompt was this one on my boyfriend's environmental shelf. Looks like an interesting read though!
pickSo much knowledge about water rights and shady public works projects in the American West! Absolutely fascinating!
In the West, it is said, water flows uphill toward money. And it literally does, as it leaps three thousand feet across the Tehachapi Mountains in gigantic siphons to slake the thirst of Los Angeles, as it is shoved a thousand feet out of Colorado River canyons to water Phoenix and Palm Springs and the irrigated lands around them.
"The only problem with that rationale was that the big growers wanted all of the water for themselves, they wanted the government to develop it for them, and they didn't want to have to pay for it."
