Books of Note
This page lists a number of books that cover, at least in part, the Colorado River.
- The Yuma Reclamation Project
- Command of the Waters, McCool
- Indian Reserved Water Rights, The Winters Doctrine in its Social and Legal Context. John Shurts. 2000.
This book derives from Shurts' PhD dissertation. It is the only book that tells the story of the Winters case that created Indian reserved water rights.
- Markets for Federal Water
- Colossus
- A Story that Stands Like a Dam
- New Courses for the Colorado River
- Vision in the Desert
- The Politics of Water in the Desert
- Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems, Adler
- The Silver Fox of the Rockies, Tyler
- From Reclamation to Sustainability, MacDonnell
- A River No More, Fradkin
- Dividing the Waters, Hundley
- Water is for Fighting Over
- Arizona Water Policy
- Dead Pool, Powell
- The Last Water Hole in the West, Tyler
- Cadillac Desert,
- The Great Thirst, Hundley
- Science Be Dammed, Kuhn and Fleck
- Water and the West, Hundley
- Where the Water Goes
- The Place No One Knew
- The Central Arizona Project
- Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers
- Water Politics Continuity and Change
- The Emerald Mile
- Unquenchable
- A Great Aridness
- Bureau of Reclamation Project Data
- The Colorado River Documents
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