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The Man Who Thought He Owned Water: On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food

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By (author): Tershia d'Elgin

The Man Who Thought He Owned Water is author Tershia dElgins fresh take on the gravest challenge of our timehow to support urbanization without killing ourselves in the process. The gritty story of her familys experience with water rights on its Colorado farm provides essential background about American farms, food, and water administration in the West in the context of growing cities and climate change. Enchanting and informative, The Man Who Thought He Owned Water is an appeal for urban-rural cooperation over water and resiliency.   When her father bought his farmBig Bend Stationhe also bought the ample water rights associated with the land and the South Platte River, confident that he had secured the necessary resources for a successful endeavor. Yet water immediately proved fickle, hard to defend, and sometimes dangerous. Eventually those rights were curtailed without compensation. Through her familys story, dElgin dramatically frames the personal-scale implications of water competition, revealing how water deals, infrastructure, transport, and management create economic growth but also sever human connections to Earths most vital resource. She shows how water flows to cities at the expense of American-grown food, as rural land turns to desert, wildlife starves, the environment degrades, and climate change intensifies.   Depicting deep love, obsession, and breathtaking landscape, The Man Who Thought He Owned Water is an impassioned call to rebalance our relationship with water. It will be of great interest to anyone seeking to understand the complex forces affecting water resources, food supply, food security, and biodiversity in America.   See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 430g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Aug 2016
  • Publisher: University Press of Colorado
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781607324959

About Tershia d'Elgin

Tershia dElgin is a social activist with deep Colorado roots and a special interest in water policy water conservation and the tension between agricultural and metropolitan claims on water. A San Diego-based writer and water resources consultant she also oversees a working farm on the South Platte River in Colorado with her family.

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