Book Title: Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Revised Edition)

Author: Marc Reisner

Year of (Initial) Publication: 1993 (Original published in 1987)

Synopsis: addresses the history of water (mis)management, water policies/politics and the "water wars" that have plagued the American West, particularly California; also debates the suitability of land development (e.g., real estate) given much of the land is too arid.

(A companion 4-part documentary film series "Water and the Transformation of Nature" premiered on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS, in the USA) in 1997; this series is in VHS-only format and extremely hard to track down, unfortunately.)

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