Damming the West : the Nader task force report on the Bureau of Reclamation / by Richard L. Berkman, Kip Viscusi ; foreword by Ralph Nader.

Title
  1. Damming the West : the Nader task force report on the Bureau of Reclamation / by Richard L. Berkman, Kip Viscusi ; foreword by Ralph Nader.
Published by
  1. Washington : Center for Study of Responsive Law, c1971.
Author
  1. Berkman, Richard L.

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Additional authors
  1. Viscusi, W. Kip.
  2. Nader, Ralph.
Description
  1. viii, 259, [52] p. : maps; 28 cm.
Summary
  1. Exposes the waste of taxpayers' money and despoilation of the natural environment through such projects as the Hoover Dam and the Central Arizona Project.
Alternative title
  1. Nader task force report on the Bureau of Reclamation
Subject
  1. United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. Water over the dam. Pt. I. The analytic deception: Reclamation's benefit-cost analysis. Ch. 2. Irrigation: too much of a good thing -- Ch. 3. Ignoring environmental impacts -- Ch. 4. Distorted technical criteria -- Pt. II. Profiteers and the damned. Ch. 5. Politicians and bureaucrats: a case study of the Central Arizona Project -- Ch. 6. Hidden subsidization of profiteers -- Ch. 7. Indians sold down the river -- Pt. III. Challenging prospective Bureau policies. Ch. 8. A look at prospective changes -- Ch. 9. Summary of major conclusions and recommendations -- Pt. IV. Tables and footnotes.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain