Damming the West : the Nader task force report on the Bureau of Reclamation / by Richard L. Berkman, Kip Viscusi ; foreword by Ralph Nader.
- Title
- 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
- Washington : Center for Study of Responsive Law, c1971.
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- Description
- viii, 259, [52] p. : maps; 28 cm.
- Summary
- 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
- Nader task force report on the Bureau of Reclamation
- Subject
- Contents
- 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
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
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