Cadillac Desert_ The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner [360]
Theodore Roosevelt Lake—1981 Sedimentation Survey. U.S. Department of the Interior, July 1983.
“Upper Colorado River Basin Energy Development Project Water Needs and Water Supplies.” Unpublished Interior Department Discussion Draft, May 23, 1974.
“The Valley’s Dangerous Drain Problem.” San Francisco Examiner, May 20, 1979.
Van Schilfgaarde, Jan. “Water Conservation Potential in Irrigated Agriculture.” USDA Salinity Control Laboratory, Riverside, California, August 1979.
“Water resource mismanagement brewing crisis.” Oregonian, March 20, 1983.
“What to Do When the Well Runs Dry.” Science, November 14, 1980.
Williams, Philip. “Dam Design: Is the Technology Faulty?” New Scientist, February 2, 1978.
Worster, Donald. “Water and the Flow of Power.” The Ecologist, Vol. 13, No. 5, 1983.
LETTERS, MEMORANDA, MISCELLANEOUS
Adams, Mark. Blue envelope memorandum to Floyd Dominy, Commissioner of Reclamation, “Tenor of comments by a few members of Texas Congressional Delegation concerning Reclamation program in Texas,” June 12, 1962.
Gessel, Clyde, and William Culp. Memorandum to Chief, Division of River Control, Bureau of Reclamation, “Sediment Deposition—Blue Mesa Reservoir Site—Curecanti Unit—Colorado River Storage Project,” March 29, 1961.
Hill, Leon. Blue envelope memorandum to Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, “Texas Water Situation,” September 1, 1966.
Mermel, T. W. Memorandum to Commissioner Dominy, “USSR Breaks Records—Earth and Arch Dams,” November 19, 1968.
Nelson, Harold. Blue envelope memorandum to Commissioner of Reclamation, “Possible Leakage, Yellowtail Reservoir,” April 20, 1966.
Oka, James N. Memorandum to Chief, Special Studies Branch, Bureau of Reclamation, “Sediment Study, Morrow Point Reservoir,” March 28, 1962.
EPILOGUE: A Civilization, if You Can Keep It
Information on the North American Water and Power Alliance is readily proffered by the Parsons Company in Pasadena, California. Background on the project was also provided by Jim Casey, Barney Bellport, C. J. Kuiper, Stanford McCasland, Derrick Sewall, Frank Moss, and Irving Fox. Derrick Sewall, Irving Fox and Moira Farrow were my main sources regarding the Canadian water situation.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, REPORTS, LETTERS, MEMORANDA, MISCELLANEOUS
“Actual Price of High Dams Also Includes Social Costs.” New York Times, July 10, 1983.
“Alaska to Mexico Canals Urged to Water Deserts.” Denver Post, February 27, 1977.
“Audits Show Unbusinesslike Management of Western Basin Accounts.” Environmental Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
“Billion Dollar Plot Alleged: U.S. ‘Wants Canada’s Water.’ ” Vancouver Sun, June 27, 1981.
Bocking, Richard. Canada’s Water—For Sale? James Lewis and Samuel, Toronto, 1972.
“Damage to Glen Canyon Spillways Complicates Plans for Spring Runoff.” Salt Lake Tribune, December 14, 1983.
Dominy, Floyd. Untitled monograph (response to U.S. Chamber of Commerce report on adverse effects of expanding government), October 25, 1957.
“Dominy Foresees Water Sharing Need After Northwest Meets Requirements.” Idaho Statesman, January 22, 1966.
“Great Lakes States Seek to Keep Their Water.” New York Times, June 13, 1982. Kierans, Thomas W. The Grand Canal: A Water Resources Planning Concept for North America. Alexander Graham Bell Institute, Sydney, Nova Scotia.
King, Laura B., and Philip E. LeVeen. Turning Off the Tap on Federal Water Subsidies (Volume I: The Central Valley Project: The $3.5 Billion Giveaway). Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, August 1985.
“Next B.C. Megaproject Looms.” Vancouver Sun, September 29, 1985.
Pearce, Fred. “Fall and Rise of the Caspian Sea.” New Scientist, December 6, 1984.
Rada, Edward L., and Richard J. Berquist. Irrigation Efficiency in the Production of California Crop Calories and Proteins. California Water Resources Center, Davis, California, May 1976.
Sewall,