Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West by Fleck, John
Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West by Fleck, John

Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West

"Illuminating." --New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West,...
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Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West by Fleck, John

Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West

$111.18
Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West by Fleck, John

Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West

$111.18
Author: John Fleck
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Illuminating." --New York Times

WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016

When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper headlines have screamed, "Scarce water and the death of California farms," "The Dust Bowl returns," "A 'megadrought' will grip U.S. in the coming decades." Yet similar stories have been appearing for decades and the taps continue to flow. John Fleck argues that the talk of impending doom is not only untrue, but dangerous. When people get scared, they fight for the last drop of water; but when they actually have less, they use less.

Having covered environmental issues in the West for a quarter century, Fleck would be the last writer to discount the serious problems posed by a dwindling Colorado River. But in that time, Fleck has also seen people in the Colorado River Basin come together, conserve, and share the water that is available. Western communities, whether farmers and city-dwellers or US environmentalists and Mexican water managers, have a promising record of cooperation, a record often obscured by the crisis narrative.

In this fresh take on western water, Fleck brings to light the true history of collaboration and examines the bonds currently being forged to solve the Basin's most dire threats. Rather than perpetuate the myth "Whiskey's for drinkin', water's for fightin' over," Fleck urges readers to embrace a new, more optimistic narrative--a future where the Colorado continues to flow.

Author: John Fleck
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 03/19/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781642830118

About the Author

John Fleck is director of the University of New Mexico's Water Resources Program. For 25 years, he covered science and the environment for the Albuquerque Journal. He is author of The Tree Rings' Tale, a children's book about the climate of the West.



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