Unsettled waters : rights, law, and identity in the American West /
"In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudica...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the cultures of water sovereignty in New Mexico
- Unsettled waters : how water adjudication works, what it does, and what happens when it fails
- The production of water expertise, the adjudication-industrial complex and its consequences
- Adjudicating the unknown future of New Mexico's water.