The River Runs Dry

di William Liu (Autore)

William Liu, 2026

In August 2026 Lake Mead fell to the lowest level ever recorded. Weeks later, Lake Powell followed. The seven states that share the Colorado River could not agree on how to divide a shrinking river, so the Secretary of the Interior imposed cuts himself, and one state sued within days. The River Runs Dry explains how the American West got here and what comes next. It reads the crisis as a debt, not a dry spell: a set of promises about water, made in good faith, written into law and built into cities, farms and power grids, that the land can no longer keep. Follow the story from the bathtub ring on the canyon walls to the compact that split the river, the oldest water rights and the last share downstream, the farmers being paid to fallow fields, the Ogallala aquifer draining beneath the Plains, the Central Valley land that sank, and the city that tore out its lawns. Written for general readers, with every figure sourced and every bit of arithmetic shown, this is a clear, fair account of who holds the rights, who bears the cuts, and what new water will really cost.

• Autore: William Liu
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: William Liu
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235532199