A review by s_books
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner

informative

4.5

An excellently written history of water in the American west, the only main drawback is that as a published book, it has to have an end point and years and events have since made it seem a bit dated — even the postscript to the 2017 revised edition, written by the author’s wife, talks about things such as the removal of dams on the Klamath as a possibility instead of, what they now are, a reality. And times, most likely, will still keep on a-changin’.