Uphill against Water: The Great Dakota Water War (Our Sustainable Future)

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In Uphill against Water, Peter Carrels examines the history of Missouri River water development projects normally and describes the struggle over one of the most largest of the ones projects, South Dakota’s Oahe irrigation project, in detail. Opposition to the Oahe project was once intense and well organized. After four years of bitter competition, an lively and resourceful grassroots group, United Circle of relatives Farmers, wrested keep an eye on of the Oahe conservancy district board, a central authority agency that had been an ardent supporter of the irrigation project. That political triumph led to the one victory within the West by a grassroots group over the Bureau of Reclamation and the irrigation and business establishment.

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