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Historical Water-Use Priorities and Public Policies: Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project
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"The forces that created and maintain contemporary California’s complex waterscape have exploited the Sierra Nevada for 145 years. Since the Gold Rush era, the development, manipulation, and use of its water resources has significantly modified the Sierra Nevada landscape, incalculably impacting the region’s ecosystem. Focusing on selected episodes featuring the impoundment and conveyance of water and its various uses, this paper, emphasizing the historical evolution of water use priorities, seeks answers to the question: How have past public policies involving water resources—or their absence—impacted the Sierra Nevada ecosystem? Special attention is given to the scale and scope of landscape transformation in the
last half of the 19th century, when technology and capital were largely unconstrained by public policies."
water scarcity, Central Valley Project, State Water Project, Molones Dam, flumes, ditches, hydraulic mining, ditch mining systems (diagrams), Anti-Debris Association of the Sacramento Valley, Hydraulic Miners Association, irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, water rights, water-use priorities, Mono Lake
June 01, 1996 02:00 AM
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Hetch Hetchy, Owens Valley, Central Valley, Stanislaus River, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mono Lake
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