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It takes 8 gallons of water to grow a tomato; 616 gallons to make a burger patty. In fact, the food each of us consumes per day represents an investment of 4,500 gallons of water, according to the California Farm Bureau. In this densely populated state where it rains only six months out of the year, where does all that water come from? This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods. Along the way, we learn much about California itself as the book describes its rivers, lakes, wetlands, dams, and aqueducts and discusses the role of water in agriculture, the environment, and politics. Essential reading for a state facing the future with an already overextended water supply, this fascinating book shows that, for all Californians, every drop counts. * Features 137 color photographs and 27 color maps * Includes a table "Where Does Your Water Come From?" that answers the question for 315 California cities and towns * Provides up-to-date information on water quality in California, covering such timely topics as Giardia, groundwater contamination, fluoride, and the bottled-water phenomenon A book in the Californians and Their Environment subseries, dedicated to understanding human influences on the state's ecology and natural resources

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction: Water Web--Connected Californians PART 1. TAPPING INTO A PLANETARY CYCLE A Great Water Wheel Vital Molecule "Normal" Weather--Anything But "Average" PART 2. CALIFORNIA WATER LANDSCAPE Pristine Waterscape Groundwater Hydrologic Regions: North Coast Sacramento River North Lahontan San Francisco Bay San Joaquin Central Coast Tulare Lake South Lahontan South Coast Colorado River PART 3. THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Expanding Watersheds State Water Project Central Valley Project Colorado River Delivery Systems Los Angeles Aqueduct Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct Mokulumne Aqueduct Other Districts Where Does Your Water Come From? PART 4. CHALLENGES TO CALIFORNIA WATER MANAGEMENT Extinction is Forever A Thirsty Garden Salton Sea Animal Impacts Beneath Your Feet Out of Sight, Out of Control Can You Drink the Water? Giardia Mass Medication The Bottled Water Phenomenon The Problem is Us Where Does Your Dog Go? Unchecked Growth, Messing with the Cycle PART 5. MEETING CHALLENGES--CALIFORNIA'S WATER FUTURE The Public Trust Restoration CALFED The Debate Over Dams: Build More Behemoths? Offstream Dams? Raise Existing Dams? Raze Existing Dams? Storage in the Bank Transfers: Water as a Commodity Short-cutting the Cycle (Recycling) Squeezing the Sponge (Conservation) Clean Water Lemonade from Lemons (Desalination) What Future Do You Choose? California Water Timeline Glossary Agencies and Organizations References

About the Author :
David Carle worked as a California State Park ranger for 27 years. He is author of Water and the California Dream: Choices for the New Millennium (2003) and Burning Questions: America's Fight With Nature's Fire (2002), among other books.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520235809
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 184 mm
  • No of Pages: 276
  • Series Title: 76 California Natural History Guides
  • Width: 114 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0520235800
  • Publisher Date: 26 Apr 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 499 gr


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