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Water Issues Reading List
This list of readings on water issues is not an exhaustive one...many other works could be cited. What the list does offer is a variety of educational books on water as it applies to the vast Great Plains from different perspectives: science, biology, community activism, historical-critical and global analysis, geography, cultural literature and heritage, and elementary and high school education. Almost all are very accessible to the adult reader.
A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley (New York: National Geographic Society, 2002).
America by Rivers by Tim Palmer (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996).
A Regional Guidebook for Assessing the Functions of Temporary and Seasonal Rainwater Basin Depressions in Nebraska Draft. (Grand Island, NE: Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, 2001)
Balancing Water: Restoring The Klamath Basin by William Kittredge (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972).
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude
Barlow and Tony Clarke (New Press, 2003).
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner (New York: Penguin Books, 1993).
Clean Water: An Introduction to Water Quality and Pollution Control by Kenneth M. Vigil (Columbia Cascade Publishing, 1996).
"Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions"
National Research Council (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press,
2001).
Common-Property Arrangements and Scarce Resources: Water in the American
West by Edward M. Barbanell (Praeger Publishers, 2001).
Community Waters: Soil & Water Stewardship 2000 Educator's Guide
(National Association of Conservation Districts, League City, Texas)
www.nacdnet.org
Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado by Elliott West (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998)
Ditches Across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley by Stephen Bogener (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2003).
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979).
"Effects of Future Ground-Water Pumpage on the High Plains Aquifer in Parts of
Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas,
and Wyoming" by R.R. Luckey, E.D. Gutentage, F.J. Heimes, and J.B. Weeks
in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Papers 1400-E. (Washington, D.C.,
1988).
El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and
New Mexico, 1536-1860 by John Miller Morris (Austin: Texas State Historical
Association, 1997).
Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle Over Water by Jeff Rothfeder (J.P.
Tarcher, 2001).
Fresh Water by E.C. Pielou (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Great Plains by Ian Frazier (New York: Penguin Books, 1989).
Green Builder (Sustainable Resources for Water Conservation)
http://www.greenbuilder.com)
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains by David Krom & Stephen White
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992).
Heaven's Tableland: The Dust Bowl Story by Vance Johnson (New York: Farrer,
Straus, and Company, 1947).
Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest by Dan Flores
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999).
Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West by Mark Fiege (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999).
Killing the Hidden Waters by Charles Bowden (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985).
Land of the Underground Rain: Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970 by Donald Green (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973).
Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity by Sandra Postel (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997).
Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water by Phillip Ball (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2001).
Magpie Rising: Sketches From The Great Plains by Merrill Gilfillan (Boulder, CO; Pruett
Publishing Company, 1988).
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico by Stanely Crawford (New York: Anchor Books, 1988).
"Meteorological and Isotopic Characteristics of Precipitation Events with
Implications for Groundwater Recharge, Southern High Plains,"
in Atmospheric Science 23:51-82.
Native Waters: Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty
Era by Daniel McCool (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002).
"Nebraska Connects: Troubled Waters," a series on Nebraska Public Radio Network,
2003. http://net.unl.edu/ne_coonnects/troubled_waters.html
Old Jules by Mari Sandoz (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
People of the Valley by Frank Waters (Athens: Swallow Press, 1969).
Pillar of Sand: Can The Irrigation Miracle Last? by Sandra Postel (New York:
W.W. Norton & Company, 1999).
Playas: Jewels of the Plains by Jim Steiert (Lubbock: Texas Tech University,
1995).
Playa Lakes Joint Venture Implementation and Evaluation Plan. Draft (Lafayette, CO: Playa Lakes Joint Venture, 2002). www.pljv.org
Playas of the Great Plains by Loren Smith (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2003).
Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged by Suzy Banks and Richard Heinichen (Dripping Springs, TX: Tank Town Publishing).
Telephone: 512-894-0861
Reflected in Water: A Crisis of Social Responsibility by Colin Ward
(Continuum Press, 1997).
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
by John Barry (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998).
River Horse: A Logbook of a Boat Across America by William Least Heat-Moon
(New York: Penguin Books, 2001).
Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature by Sandra Postel and Brian Richter (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003).
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
by Donald Worster (Oxford University Press, 1985).
Scarce Water: Doing More with Less in the Lower Rio Grande by Jurgen
Schmandt, et al (Austin: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 1998).
Springs of Texas, Volume I & II by Gunnar Brune (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981).
"Texas: The State of Water," Eight short essays in Texas Parks and Wildlife
Magazine, Volume 60: no. 7 (July 2002). www.tpwd.state.tx.us
The Columbia River Watershed: Realities and Possibilities written by the Catholic Bishops of the Pacific Northwest, 2000 (www.columbiariver.org).
The Future of the Southern Plains edited by Sherry L. Smith (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003).
The Great Plains by Walter Prescott Webb (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
[1931] 1981).
The Milagro Beanfield War by John Treadwell Nichols (Owl Books, 2000).
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
by Dan Flores (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001).
The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert by Craig Childs (Back Bay Books, 2001).
The Texas Guide to Rainwater Harvesting, Second Edition (Austin: Texas Water Development Board) pdf version
http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/publications/reports/RainHarv.pdf
The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1984).
"The Water Planet," in Natural History, Volume 112, no. 4 (May 2003).
The World's Water 2002-2003: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources by Peter Gleick (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002).
"Water"...seven superb articles in Catholic Rural Life, Volume 45: no. 2,
(Spring 2003). Ncrlc@aol.com
Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters by Robert Jerome Glennon (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002).
Water for a Dry Land, Second Edition by John Opie (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000).
"Water in the West: The Past and Present Challenges of Surviving in an Arid
Land," a special series of programs on National Public Radio, August, 2003. www.npr.org
Water on the Great Plains: Issues and Policies by Peter J. Longo and David Yoskowitz, Editors (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2002).
Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment by Terry Anderson, editor (Paperback, 1991).
Water, Rivers, and Creeks by Luna Bergere Leopold (New York: University
Science Books, 1997).
Watershed: The Undamming of America by Elizabeth Grossman
(Washington, DC: Counterpoint Press, 2002).
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq De Villiers
(Toronto: Stoddart, 1999).
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit by Vandana Shiva (South End
Press, 2002).
Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst by Diana Raines Ward (Riverhead Press, 2002).
Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West
by Donald Worster (Oxford University Press, 1992).
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