Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America’s Cities

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203 Introduction: Water—Truly a Precious Commodity On broad issues related to water history, see Petri S. Juuti, Tapio S. Katko, and Heikki S. Vurinen, eds., Environmental History of Water: Global Views on Community Water Supply and Sanitation (London: IWA Pub., 2007); R. Coopey and T. Tvedt, eds., A History of Water, volume 2, The Political Economy of Water (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006); Marc DeVilliers, Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (Boston: Mariner Books, 2001); Marnie Leybourne and Andrea Gaynor, eds., Water: Histories, Cultures, Ecologies (Crowley, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 2006); Alice Outwater, Water: A Natural History (New York: Basic Books, 1996); T. Tvedt and E. Jakobsson, eds., A History of Water, volume 1, Water Control and River Biographies (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006); T. Tvedt and T. Oestigaard , eds., A History of Water, volume 3, The World of Water (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006). Many of the volumes produced by Resources for the Future Press deal with key questions with respect to management and control of water, resource economics, and water rights. Some current titles include Geoffrey Gooch and Per Stålnacke, eds., Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management: An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2010); Rutgerd Boelens, David Getches, and Armando Guevara Gil, eds., Out of the Mainstream: Water Rights, Politics and Identity (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2010); Ronald C. Griffin, ed., Water Policy in Texas: Responding to the Rise of Scarcity (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2010); Kristiina A. Vogt, et al., Sustainability Unpacked: Food, Energy and Water for Resilient Environments and Societies (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2010); Maggie Black and Jannet King, The Atlas of Water: Mapping the World’s Most Critical Resource, The Earthscan Atlas Series (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2010; 2nd ed.); José Esteban Castro and Léo Heller, eds., Water and Sanitation Services : Public Policy and Management (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2009); Water and Sanitation in the World’s Cities: Local Action for Global Goals (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2003). Further Reading 204 further reading Chapter One. “Improving” Rivers in America: From the Revolution to the Progressive Era The historical literature on rivers has exploded in recent years. Many new books have taken their place alongside such classics as Donald Worster’s Rivers of Empire : Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985) and Richard White’s The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995). For American rivers, in particular, the number of new studies has been remarkable. See, for example, John O. Anfinson , The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003); James M. Aton and Robert S. McPherson, River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000); Robert Baron and Thomas Locker, Hudson: the Story of a River (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub., 2004); Frances F. Dunwell , The Hudson: America’s River (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008); Calvin R. Flemling, Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005); Douglas E. Kupel, Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona’s Urban Environment (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003); Tom Lewis, The Hudson: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005); Gregory Summers, Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox Valley, 1850–1950 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006); Donald Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). On western water conflicts and other issues, see William Ashworth, Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains (Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 2006); Douglas E. Kupel, Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona’s Urban Environment (Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2003); Char Miller, ed., Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001); Donald J. Pisani, Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Stephen C. Sturgeon, The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002); Evan Ward, Border Oasis: Water and the Politics Ecology of the Colorado River Delta (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003); Daniel Tyler, Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphius E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts...