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Damming the Gila
Unraveling a complex web of tension, distrust, and political
maneuvering, Damming the Gila continues the story of the
Gila River Indian Community's struggle for the restoration of its
water rights. This volume continues to chronicle the history of
water rights and activities on the Gila River Indian Reservation.
Centered on the San Carlos Irrigation Project and Coolidge Dam, it
details the history and development of the project, including the
Gila Decree and the Winters Doctrine. Embedded in the narrative is
the underlying tension between tribal growers on the Gila River
Indian Reservation and upstream users. Told in seven chapters, the
story underscores the idea that the Gila River Indian Community
believed the San Carlos Irrigation Project was first and foremost
for their benefit and how the project and the Gila Decree fell
short of restoring their water and agricultural economy.
Damming the Gila is the third in a trio of important
documentary works, beginning with DeJong's Stealing the
Gila and followed by Diverting the Gila. It continues
the story of the Gila River Indian Community's fight to regain
access to their water.
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Saving Grand Canyon : dams, deals, and a noble myth
\"This book tells three interconnected stories: It chronicles a century of attempts to build dams in Grand Canyon and why those attempts failed. It demonstrates how the National Environmental Policy Act came out of these controversies. Finally, it debunks the myth that the Sierra Club saved Grand Canyon and shows how the club parlayed this perception into the leadership of the modern environmental movement after NEPA became law\"--Provided by publisher.
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Dam
Rivers are one of nature's most vital energy sources, and their power can be efficiently harnessed through the construction of dams. But now dams have become a controversial engine in the race toward technological advancement, so much so that the World Commission on Dams convened in 1998 to debate the issue. Are dams a help to society or an agent of environmental destruction? Trevor Turpin explores the answers to that question here in his comprehensive historical chronicle.
Among the most amazing feats of human engineering, a dam can sustain societies in a multitude of ways, as40, 000 of themaround the world provide such things as electricity, water for farms and cities, and canals for boat navigation. Turpin traces their development, design, and consequences from the Industrial Revolution to now, examining edifices in China, Las Vegas, and places in between. The often contentious debate between environmentalists, architects, and engineers, Dam shows, is a complex one that pits the benefits of dams against the long-term ecological health of nations.
Neither a polemic against dams nor a defense of their proliferation, Dam offers a judicious and in-depth account of this cornerstone of our modern age.
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At the Base of the Giant's Throat
There are ninety thousand registered dams in the United States,
fifty thousand of them classified as \"major.\" Nearly all of this
infrastructure was built during a forty-year period, from 1932 to
1972, in an era of public investment and political consensus that
seems inconceivable today. These incredible structures-sometimes
called the American Pyramids-helped the country rebound from the
Great Depression, brought water and electricity to enormous
reaches, helped win World War II for the Allies, and became the
basis for decades of prosperous stability. At the Base of the
Giant's Throat dives into the history of dam-building in the
United States as natural waterscapes have been replaced with
engineered environments and the bone-dry West became America's
produce aisle. From the Folsom Powerhouse cranking sixty-hertz
alternating current in the 1890s to the iconic Hoover Dam and the
gargantuan Grand Coulee Dam, Anthony R. Palumbi lays out how dams
and water projects changed the North American continent forever and
laid the groundwork for an age of unprecedented prosperity. He also
describes how institutional complacency corrupted the ethos of
public power and public works-and how the influence of rich
landowners undermined the credibility of that ethos. Palumbi shows
how our nation's ability to cope with natural disasters has been
fatally compromised by underinvestment in decaying infrastructure.
He argues that a livable future demands investment on a scale few
Americans currently grasp. To win that future we must interrogate
the history of our most vital public works: the dams, canals, and
levees helping to channel life's most precious molecule. At the
Base of the Giant's Throat tells the story of America through
its water, sweeping across five hundred years of history, from the
swashbuckling exploits of French colonist Samuel de Champlain to
the nightmarish urban flooding of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane
Sandy.
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Light and power for a multiracial nation : the Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation
'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern Africa and based on an array of primary sources and interviews the book provides a nuanced understanding of development in the turbulent late 1950s, a time when most colonies moved towards independence.
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Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development
Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Engineers and hydrologists praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills required to construct what was then the world's fifth-largest mega-dam. Portuguese colonial officials cited benefits they expected from the dam - from expansion of irrigated farming and European settlement, to improved transportation throughout the Zambezi River Valley, to reduced flooding in this area of unpredictable rainfall. \"The project, however, actually resulted in cascading layers of human displacement, violence, and environmental destruction. Its electricity benefited few Mozambicans, even after the former guerrillas of FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) came to power; instead, it fed industrialization in apartheid South Africa.\" (Richard Roberts) This in-depth study of the region examines the dominant developmentalist narrative that has surrounded the dam, chronicles the continual violence that has accompanied its existence, and gives voice to previously unheard narratives of forced labor, displacement, and historical and contemporary life in the dam's shadow.
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