This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty mi
A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wroug
“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite th