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“The Drying Out of America.” Discover, April 1981.

Elephant Butte Reservoir, 1980 Sedimentation Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, July 1983.

“Ground water levels dip in 10 Oregon farming areas.” Oregonian, April 10, 1983.

“The High Plains: Depleting the Ogallala” (series of six articles). Denver Post, December 16—21, 1979.

Holburt, Myron. “The 1973 Agreement on Colorado River Salinity Between the United States and Mexico.” Presented at the National Conference on Irrigation Return Flow Quality Management, Fort Collins, Colorado, May 1977.

The Hydrologic History of the San Carlos Reservoir, Arizona, 1929—1971. Geological Survey Professional Paper 665-N, 1977.

Jacobsen, Thorkind, and Robert M. Adams. “Salt and Silt in Ancient Mesopotamian Agriculture.” Science, November 1958.

Kuiper, C. J. “The Ground Water Rush of 1978.” Office of the Colorado State Engineer, February 5, 1979.

Kuiper, C. J., Floyd Dominy, et al. Nile River Irrigation System Rehabilitation and Improvement Program. Report of the Scope Team.

“Lamm Calls ‘Water Grab’ Time Bomb in Constitution.” DenverPost, April 3, 1979.

Lehr, Jay H. “Groundwater—in the Eighties.” WATER Engineering and Management, March 1981.

LeVeen, E. Philip. A Political-Economic Analysis of the Prospects for Irrigated Agriculture in California, Berkeley, California, November 1984.

—. “Toward a New Food Policy.” Public Interest Economics—West, Berkeley, California.

“Losers all around in irrigation battleground.” Fresno Bee, November 25, 1984.

“Mexico Won’t Pay for Texas Oil Spill Mess.” San Francisco Chronicle (undated).

The 1964 Sedimentation Survey of Boysen Reservoir, Wyoming. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, November 1965.

“Ogallala Overdraft Could Start Big Battle over Rescue Strategies.” World Water, September 1982.

Pillsbury, Arthur F. “The Salinity of Rivers.” Scientific American, July 1981.

“Plans to Hold Down Colorado River’s Salt Content and Avoid Irking Mexico Are Hit by Rising Costs.” Wall Street Journal, June 21, 1979.

“The Price of a Sweet River.” Boston Globe, May 27, 1979.

Rates of Sediment Production in Midwestern United States. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Washington, D.C., December 1948.

“Representative Brown Calls Colorado River Desalting Plant ‘Boondoggle,’ Fights to Halt Project.” Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1979.

Rhodes, J. D., and R. D. LeMert. “Use of San Joaquin Valley Saline Drainage Waters for Irrigation of Cotton.” USDA Salinity Control Laboratory, Riverside, 1981.

Risser, James. “Worse Than the Dust Bowl.” The New Farm, February 1983.

“Running Dry: Huge Area in Midwest Relying on Irrigation Is Depleting Its Water.” Wall Street Journal, August 6, 1980.

Russell, Dick. “Ogallala—Half Full or Half Empty?” The Amicus Journal, Fall 1985.

S. 496, “A Bill to increase the appropriation ceiling for title I of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act.” U.S. Senate, February 22, 1979.

Sedimentation Report of Buffalo Bill Reservoir, Shoshone Project.” U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, May 24, 1949.

Sedimentation Study, Glen Canyon Dam, Colorado River Storage Project, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, May 1962.

“Seventy-six Tons of Tomatoes per Acre with Subsurface Trickle Irrigation.” USDA Agriculture Research Service News, November 4, 1982.

Shaw, Gaylord. “The search for dangerous dams: a program to head off disaster.” Natural History.

Shoji, Kobe. “Drip Irrigation.” Scientific American.

Skogerboe, Gaylord V. “Agricultural Impact on Water Quality in Western Rivers.” Department of Agricultural Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

“SPLAT! Clements belly-flops over Arkansas water.” Texas Monthly, May 1981.

“State’s Bold Plan to Create Power, Drinking Water.” San Francisco Chronicle, August 14, 1984.

Sudman, Rita Schmidt. “Salt in the San Joaquin.” Western Water, May/ June 1982.

Texas Observer, 1966-1981. (Author’s note: Most of the material relating to the Texas Water Plan was gleaned from excellent reporting in this publication