![]() ![]() But read the history of how the West-which, after all, is largely desert and semi-desert-obtained the cheap, abundant water that its residents now take for granted and a different picture emerges. Environmentalists point fingers at global warming and greedy agribusinesses that insist on growing thirsty crops in an arid climate right-wingers assail feckless Washington bureaucrats and laws that give fish priority over people. The crisis has also triggered much talk about who, or what, is to blame. ![]() ![]() Today, California and much of the West are enduring the fourth year of a record drought that has triggered unprecedented cutbacks in water use and unabashed fears for the region’s future. Bureau of Reclamation has done more to shape the water supply, landscape, and economy of the modern American West than any other entity, public or private. ![]() citizen in a hundred knows its name, but then it has one of the dullest names imaginable, almost as if its creators intended to discourage the public and the press from paying attention to it.īut dull name or not, the U.S. Nor would the Hoover Dam or the fabled agricultural production of California. Los Angeles and Phoenix would not exist without it. ![]()
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