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msgtdameron's review
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.5
This book is not just about water. It's about how water and the lack of it in the Colorado river basin will affect AZ, New Mexico, and the Mexican boarder area. Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and California are talked about, but as they relate to the water pacts that affect AZ, N.M., and the Mexican boarder area. Chapters include migratory, bison, now cut off from their American grazing land, illegal immigration, fire, to much and to little rain and snow fall, California irrigation plumbing, AZ irrigation plumbing, how ancient peoples, Chaco Canyon people and a host of other topics. It is written in a very engaging style and tells a must read story. Yes even with the past year and the large amounts of rain and snow that has fallen from Washington to El Paso TX. Yes today Lake Mead is at 83 % capacity and I've seen it 15 feet above the spillway in 1984, but before last springs snows and rains Lake Mead was at 1045 ft, full is 1225ft or 84 % full but with continuing demand it still needs another two years of what last spring and the past summer looked like to get to 1225. And that, two more wet years is NOT guaranteed. This work looks at what can and can not be changed. Great primer for what is coming to the American SW.
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