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The diplomacy of water: “Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West” enters second printing

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 27, 2009 at 7:35 am

From High Country News:

“Norris Hundley’s book Water and the West has long stood as the classic account of the epic negotiations to divide up the Colorado River’s water. First published in 1975, the book quickly went out of print. Yet it is such an essential history of the river’s politics that, for the last several years, it’s been hard to find a used copy for less than $150.

Now, Water and the West is back, in a second edition with a new preface and epilogue. Many good books on the topic have followed in its wake, but Water and the West remains the single most important source for understanding the origins of (and the seemingly incomprehensible political gyrations behind) the 1922 Colorado River Compact. Hundley’s painstakingly assembled account of the Compact negotiations was drawn, in part, from a long-lost set of minutes that he rediscovered. It was like unearthing the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Colorado. …”

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October 27, 2009 · Filed Under Water History

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