Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy

by Abraham Hoffman

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Seventy-five years ago the growing city of Los Angeles, amid considerable conflict, appropriated water from a rural area 250 miles away. Still unresolved, the controversy surrounding the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Aqueduct has long since moved from the personal, even violent level fictionalized in the movie Chinatown to the dry realm of court proceedings, injunctions, and environmental impact reports. But water remains a problem in California,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0890965099

ISBN13:9780890965092

Release Date:April 1992

Publisher:Texas A&M University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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