Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Audiobook (Free)

The story from the American West may be the story of a relentless search for a precious resource: water. It is an account of rivers diverted and dammed, of politics corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar fights over water rights, of ecologic and financial devastation. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the initial settlers, lured by the promise of heaven, and of the ruthless tactics employed by LA politicians and business interests to ensure the city’s development. He paperwork the bitter rivalry between two federal government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the US Army Corps of Technical engineers, in your competition to transform the Western.Based on greater than a decade of study, Cadillac Desert is a stunning exposé and a dramatic, interesting history of the creation of Eden-an Eden that may be just a mirage.