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028			_a: Kabdwal Book International _b: Narayan Plaza 26-A, Chandivali Road, Andheri East, Maharashtra _c: KBI-39707 _d: 03/12/2025
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100			_a Owen, David.
245			_aWhere the Water Goes _b: Life and Death Along the Colorado River. _c/ David Owen.
260			_a, New York _b: Riverhead Book _c, 2017.
300			_a274p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b525
520			_aThe Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.–Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert—and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.
650			_aLife and Death
650			_aColorado River
650			_aHistory
700			_aDavid Owen.
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