![]() ![]() ![]() On a smaller scale, similar marvels were wrought in other states - Arizona, Utah, Colorado, the Dakotas, Montana and even Nevada. It virtually created modern California, making it the nation's most populous state and one of the The Grand Canyon, concluded that so much of the West was virtually desert that if all the flowing water in the region were applied to it, the water would spread too thin to make much difference.īut that didn't daunt several generations of pioneers, who believed the selective harnessing of available water could yield miracles. More than a century ago John Wesley Powell, the nation's pioneer hydrographer and an explorer of The money has gone into Federal water projects in the Western states - some of the projects awesome, some scandalous but all with an uncertain future. On where billions of their dollars have gone - and where a lot more are going. It's a revealing, absorbing, often amusing and alarming report IT'S unlikely that most taxpayers will read '' Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water,'' but they should. ![]() Section 7, Column 1 Book Review DeskīY GLADWIN HILL Gladwin Hill is the former national environmental correspondent of The New York Times.ĬADILLAC DESERT The American West and Its Disappearing Water. September 14, 1986, Sunday, Late City Final Edition The New York Times: Book Review Search Article ![]()
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