California: The Land of Fruits and Nuts and How It Got That Way; 1998
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- Identifier
- MS1133-0086
- Title
- California: The Land of Fruits and Nuts and How It Got That Way; 1998
- Description
- California's history of struggling to find and distribute water throughout the state. Or, "too many people vying for too little water."
- Date
- 8 October 1998
- Creator
- Gilmer, Graham, III
- topic
- talk
- lecture
- SPHEX Club
- Graham Gilmer III, Gilmer
- 1998
- California precipitation
- wet and dry cycles
- American Serengeti
- hydraulic mining
- transcontinental railroad
- Spring Valley Water Company
- John Muir
- Sierra Club
- Hetch Hetchy Project
- Raker Act
- hydroelectric power
- William Mulholland
- Henry Huntington
- Los Angeles aqueduct
- Boulder Canyon Project
- Colorado River Compact
- Central Valley Project, Shasta Dam
- Bureau of Reclamation
- California Water Plan
- California Aqueduct
- Type
- Text
- Genre
- lectures
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- Graham Gilmer III
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