| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.2

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Book Review

Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona's Urban Environment. By Douglas E. Kupel. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxiv + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $39.95.

Anyone familiar with the history of water in the American West knows the too-simple interpretive dichotomy of that history, wherein western water development was either the province of elites who exercised tight control, or water systems arose democratically. The debate is admittedly over-simplified here, but the histories have nonetheless typically centered on California. With this volume, Douglas Kupel adds the Arizona perspective to the discussion and, in doing so, argues that in Arizona, water development was the result of the demands and preferences of the people. In particular, Kupel focuses on municipalities and argues convincingly that to understand water control and development in general requires looking at urban water development specifically.

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