![]() In fact, they proved to be more important than traditional engineering (my field) in shaping water management. Why do we expect anything as important as water to not be political? The individuals, sociology, economics, and politics behind the era of large water infrastructure construction were fascinating and important.The 50-year era of building large regional and multi-state water projects was largely over (by 1987). ![]() The main lessons from the book (for me) were: Mark Reisner provided an exclamation mark. The era of large dam and water projects in the US had clearly ended, and needed a punctuation mark. ![]() ![]() Cadillac Desert fell in the tradition of Muddy Waters (1951), Dams and other Disasters (1971), Rivers of Empire (1985), and Water and Power (1983), all written by giants in the field critical of Western water development, but was much better written and marketed (though less scholarly) and the time was ripe for publication of such a thoughtful, popular work. ![]()
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