| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Water and the California Dream: Choices for the New Millennium. By David Carle. (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2003. xix + 235 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $16.95, £11.95, paper.)

Anyone who has suffered through a Los Angeles freeway traffic jam can appreciate the dream/premise underlying this book: What if greater Los Angeles were restricted to local water supplies and supported a population of five hundred thousand rather than several million? David Carle is a Mono Lake biologist long opposed to water shipments from the eastern Sierra that feed the southland's urban growth juggernaut. Bolstered by the notion that nothing is inevitable—and a belief that key political decisions were driven by the machinations of elite capitalists and real estate developers—Carle posits a coun-terfactual narrative envisaging a Los Angeles deprived of interbasin water transfers: a history in which Owens River water stays in the Owens Valley, no Colorado River water traverses the Mojave escarpment, and no Feather River water descends south via the California Aqueduct. Quite a dream.

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