Author: Ward, E.R.

Source: Environment and History, Volume 7, Number 2, 1 May 2001 , pp. 219-246(28)

Publisher: White Horse Press

Abstract:

This article examines the alienation of water users in the lower Colorado River Basin from the river and its delta during the twentieth century. The author posits technological advances, affluence, geographic distance from the river itself, and prevalent Newtonian attitudes towards the landscape as the principal reasons for these geo-environmental disconnections. Politically, the competition between municipal, agricultural, and tourist-related activities contributed to the severing of ecological linkages between the urban and irrigated oases and the delta.

Keywords: Colorado River; water abstraction; alienation; geo-environmental disconnection

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2001-05-01

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