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In the state with the smallest allocation of the Colorado's water supply, Las Vegas faces the twin challenges of aridity and federal law to obtain water for its ever-expanding population. All the Water the Law Allows describes how the impending threat of shortage in the 1980s compelled the five metropolitan water agencies of greater Las Vegas to unify into a single entity. Harrison relates the circumstances of the SNWA's evolution and reveals how the unification of local, county, and state interests allowed the compact to address regional water policy with greater force and focus than any of its peers in the Colorado River Basin. Most notably, the SNWA has mapped conservation plans that have drastically reduced local water consumption; and, in the interstate realm, it has been at the center of groundbreaking, water-sharing agreements.
Yet these achievements do not challenge the fundamental primacy of the Law of the River. If current trends continue and the Basin States are compelled to reassess the river's distribution, the SNWA will be a force and a model for the Basin as a whole.
In the state with the smallest allocation of the Colorado's water supply, Las Vegas faces the twin challenges of aridity and federal law to obtain water for its ever-expanding population. All the Water the Law Allows describes how the impending threat of shortage in the 1980s compelled the five metropolitan water agencies of greater Las Vegas to unify into a single entity. Harrison relates the circumstances of the SNWA's evolution and reveals how the unification of local, county, and state interests allowed the compact to address regional water policy with greater force and focus than any of its peers in the Colorado River Basin. Most notably, the SNWA has mapped conservation plans that have drastically reduced local water consumption; and, in the interstate realm, it has been at the center of groundbreaking, water-sharing agreements.
Yet these achievements do not challenge the fundamental primacy of the Law of the River. If current trends continue and the Basin States are compelled to reassess the river's distribution, the SNWA will be a force and a model for the Basin as a whole.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Reihe: | Environment in Modern North America |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9780806169323 |
| ISBN-10: | 080616932X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC gerader Rücken kaschiert |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Harrison, Christian S |
| Hersteller: |
University of Oklahoma Press
Environment in Modern North America |
| Maße: | 235 x 157 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Christian S Harrison |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 27.07.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,592 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Reihe: | Environment in Modern North America |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9780806169323 |
| ISBN-10: | 080616932X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC gerader Rücken kaschiert |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Harrison, Christian S |
| Hersteller: |
University of Oklahoma Press
Environment in Modern North America |
| Maße: | 235 x 157 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Christian S Harrison |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 27.07.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,592 kg |
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