Name: high and dry,the texas-new mexico struggle for the pecos river (en Inglés)
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Author: Hall, G. Emlen
ISBN: 9780826324306

portada high and dry,the texas-new mexico struggle for the pecos river (en Inglés)

high and dry,the texas-new mexico struggle for the pecos river (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

G. Emlen Hall

Editorial

University of New Mexico Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.7x15.5x2 cm

Peso

0.49 kg.

ISBN

0826324304

ISBN13

9780826324306

Categorías

Historia del derecho
Ríos y lagos
Suministro y tratamiento de aguas
La tierra: historia natural general. interés general

high and dry,the texas-new mexico struggle for the pecos river (en Inglés)

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Water law, water politics, and especially water shenanigans are at the center of this book about New Mexico and Texas dividing the Pecos River. On one level the story is about a twenty-year court case, Texas v. New Mexico, a monstrous law suit between two states sharing a common water source, a state boundary, and a long history of mutual enmity. On another level, this story is as big and far-reaching as the high plains drained by the Pecos: it is part memoir, part biography, and part environmental history, part the history of hydrology, and part a contribution to the annals of litigation in the great tradition of Anthony Lewis and Jonathan Harr.While High and Dry focuses on clashes of principles and personalities, especially in the courtroom, it remains very much a story about a river and its world in an arid region. There are irrigators here, including the leading "old families" of southeastern New Mexico, and there is nature here, including "the vampires of the West," the rapacious salt cedars relentlessly sucking up the precious Pecos stream flow. But beneath them all is the author, inviting readers to see how tiny gardens grown for the soul are as crucial to the overall story as the adjudication of water rights. Hall gives a masterful summary of the legal and scientific parts of the story, but he excels in letting us feel and care about water in the same manner as do the people who use it to grow crops."One of the best books anywhere on the heart and soul of western water, High and Dry will leave you awed and flabbergasted by the intricacy, chicanery, mystery, and good old nonstop adventure of interstate water disputes. It is a joy to read, rich in humor and quirky personalities."--John Nichols"A major contribution to western water law and history in the tradition of Donald Worster. High and Dry is essential reading."--Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law