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  1. PDF read online Water and Agriculture in Colorado and the American West First in Line for the Rio Grande for android copy the link in the description or download button in the last page

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  3. Description : Water has always been one of the American Wests most precious and limited resources The earliest inhabitantsNative Americans and later Hispanicslearned to share the regions scant rainfall and snowme When Euro Americans arrived in the middle of the nineteenth century they brought with them not only an interest in large scale commercial agricuure but also new practices and laws about access to and control of the water essential for their survival and success This included the concept of private rights to water a critical resource that had previously been regarded as a communal assetDavid Stillers thoughtful study focuses on the history of agricuural water use of the Rio Grande in Colorados San Luis Valley After surveying the practices of early farmers in the region he focuses on the impacts of Euro American settlement and the ways these new agrarians endeavored to control the river Using the Rio Grande as a case study Stiller offers an informed and accessible history of the development of practices and technologies to store distribute and exploit water in Colorado and other western states as well as an account of the creation of water rights and laws that govern this essential commodity throughout the West to this day Stillers work ranges from meticulously monitored fields of irrigated alfalfa and potatoes to the local and state water agencies and halls of Congress He also includes perceptive comments on the future of western water as these arid states become increasingly urbanized during a period of worsening drought and climate changeAn excellent read for anyone curious about important issues in the West Water and Agricuure in Colorado and the American West offers a succinct summary and analysis of

  4. Colorados use of water by agricuural interests in addition to a valuable discussion of the past present and future of struggles over this necessary and endangered resource

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