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, adjudication r...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Ser.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Unsettled Waters; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Cultures of Water Sovereignty in New Mexico; PART ONE. UNSETTLED WATERS: HOW WATER ADJUDICATION WORKS, WHAT IT DOES, AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT FAILS; 1. How Local Waters Become State Water; 2. Aamodt, Dammit! Big Trouble in a Small Basin; 3. Abeyta: Taos Struggles, Then Negotiates; 4. Local Settlements Connect What State Adjudication Severed; PART TWO. THE PRODUCTION OF WATER EXPERTISE: THE ADJUDICATION-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
- 5. Changing Measures: How Expert Metrics Change Water6. Working for the Adjudication-Industrial Complex; 7. New Water Agents and Actors in Civil Society; PART THREE. ADJUDICATING THE UNKNOWN FUTURE OF NEW MEXICO'S WATER; 8. City Water, Native Water, and the Unknown Future; 9. Beyond Adjudication: Nature's Share of Water; 10. Water Coda, with No End in Sight; Notes; References; Index.
