A Thirsty Land chronicles Texans' epic struggles over water, from San Antonio's mission-era acequias to today's debates in the face of climate change and population growth, with an eye toward innovative technologies and strategies for increasing the suppl
A Thirsty Land chronicles Texans' epic struggles over water, from San Antonio's mission-era acequias to today's debates in the face of climate change and population growth, with an eye toward innovative technologies and strategies for increasing the suppl
Seamus McGraw is the author of The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone and Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change. His award-winning writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Playboy, Popular Mechanics, and Reader's Digest.
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Prologue 1. Pipe Dreams: The 1968 State Water Plan 2. When Mine Is Yours and Yours Is Ours 3. “That’s the Kind of Thinking That Will Get Your Land Took from You” 4. The Last Straw 5. Rice in the Desert 6. What Makes the Dollar Flip 7. Dow by Law 8. An Oak with Its Roots in the River, Redux 9. Old Men Shouting at the Clouds 10. A Tale of Two Colonias 11. Up Against the Wall 12. Finding a Solution, Come Hell or No Water 13. Must Be Something in the Water 14. Hanged in a Fortnight Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading Index
Prologue 1. Pipe Dreams: The 1968 State Water Plan 2. When Mine Is Yours and Yours Is Ours 3. “That’s the Kind of Thinking That Will Get Your Land Took from You” 4. The Last Straw 5. Rice in the Desert 6. What Makes the Dollar Flip 7. Dow by Law 8. An Oak with Its Roots in the River, Redux 9. Old Men Shouting at the Clouds 10. A Tale of Two Colonias 11. Up Against the Wall 12. Finding a Solution, Come Hell or No Water 13. Must Be Something in the Water 14. Hanged in a Fortnight Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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