Managing water [[electronic resource] ] : avoiding crisis in California / / Dorothy Green

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778070103321
• Autore: Green Dorothy <1929->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
• ISBN: 9786612360121; 1-282-36012-4; 0-520-94122-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.6/109794
• Soggetti: Water-supply - California - Management; Water quality - California
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Los Angeles Area Water Supplies -- 2. Water Management: Who's in Charge? -- 3. Water Use Efficiency -- 4. Drinking Water Quality -- 5. State Policy and the Los Angeles Area -- GLOSSARY -- NATIVE PLANT RESOURCES -- WEBSITES OF INTEREST -- SUGGESTED READINGS -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and understanding this system is not easy. This book describes how the current system works (or doesn't work) and discusses the issues that face elected officials, water and resource managers, and the general public. Using the Los Angeles area as a microcosm of the state, environmental activist Dorothy Green gathers detailed information on its water systems and applies the lessons learned from this data statewide. A useful primer on watershed and water policy issues, this book provides reasoned, thoughtful, and insightful arguments about sustainability.