The End of Abundance: How Water Bureaucrats Created and Destroyed the Southern California Oasis
This paper describes how water bureaucrats shaped Southern California’s urban development and put the region on a path of unsustainable growth. This path was popular and successful until the supply shocks of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s made shortage increasingly likely. The drought of 1987-1991 revea...
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| Language: | English |
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Water Alternatives Association
2009-10-01
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| Series: | Water Alternatives |
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| Online Access: | http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol2/v2issue3/63-a2-3-4/file |