Blue Revolution Part 6

16. Robert Kunzig, aDrying of the West,a National Geographic, February 2008.[back]

17. Glen M. MacDonald, aWater, Climate Change, and Sustainability in the Southwest,a part of aClimate Change and Water in Southwestern North America Special Feature,a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 50 (December 14, 2010): 21259.[back]

18. Kunzig, aDrying of the West.a[back]

19. Barnett and Pierce, aWhen Will Lake Mead Go Dry?,a 9.[back]

20. Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dustbowl (New York: Mariner Books, 2006), 310.[back]

21. B. Rajagopalan and others, aWater Supply Risk on the Colorado River: Can Management Mitigate?,a Water Resources Research, August 21, 2009.[back]

22. Joan F. Kenny and others, aEstimated Use of Water in the United States in 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1344,a 2009, http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1344/.[back]

23. U.S. Department of Energy, aEnergy Demands on Water Resources: Report to Congress on the Interdependency of Energy and Watera (December 2006): 30, http://www.sandia.gov/energy-water/docs/121-RptToCongress-EWwEIAcomments-FINAL.pdf.[back]

24. Robert F. Service, aAnother Biofuels Drawbacka"the Demand for Irrigation,a Science 326, no. 5952 (October 2009): 516a"17.[back]

25. According to the California Water Plan, 2005 edition, agriculture uses about 75 percent of all the developed water in the state; http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/.[back]

26. Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolutiona"and How It Can Renew America (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 22.[back]

27. Some of these ideas are from aGreen Infrastructure Projects in 25 States Would Create Jobs, Stimulate Economy,a press release, American Rivers, December 17, 2008.[back]

28. Luna B. Leopold, A View of the River (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), 2.[back]

29. Bevan Griffiths-Sattenspiel and Wendy Wilson, aThe Carbon Footprint of Water,a River Network, May 2009, http://www.rivernetwork.org/resource-library/carbon-footprint-water/.[back]

30. F. Herbert Bormann, Diana Balmori, and Gordon T. Geballe, Redesigning the American Lawn (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), 54.[back]

31. Author interview with Cristina Milesi, August 5, 2009.[back]

32. P. W. Mayer and others, Residential End Uses of Water (Denver: AWWA Research Foundation and American Water Works a.s.sociation, 1999).[back]

33. Records from the City of West Palm Beach public utility, which supplies water to the island of Palm Beach, show that Trumpas 2007a"08 fiscal-year average monthly consumption was 2,053,663 gallons and his average monthly bill was $9,826.33. The only two utility customers that used more than Trump were the Breakers, a 540-room resort, and the Four Seasons Ocean Grand, a 210-room resort. In July 2008, Trump sold the estate to Russian fertilizer billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.[back]

34. Robert Frank, aWhat Drought? Palm Beach Is an Island of Green,a Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2007.[back]

35. Rachel Simmonsen, aSinger Dion Splas.h.i.+est of Treasure Coastas Big Water Users,a Palm Beach Post, May 24, 2008.[back]

36. Henry Brean, aNot a Drop in the Bucket: Top 100 Users Consume Enough Water to Supply 1,950 Homes, But Thatas Only Half the Story,a Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 22, 2009.[back]

37. Simmonsen, aSinger Dion Splas.h.i.+est of Treasure Coastas Big Water Users,a and Brean, aNot a Drop in the Bucket.a[back]

38. Georgina Littlejohn, aFirst Look at Celine Dionas $20 Million Florida Waterpark Mansion That Boasts Slides, Bridges, and Even a Lazy River,a Daily Mail (UK), June 8, 2010.[back]

39. Marty Toohey, aNo Dry Days at These Homes,a Austin American-Statesman, August 15, 2008.[back]

40. The Wisconsin Historical Society has the most well-doc.u.mented argument, at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/topics/wisconsin-name/.[back]

41. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970; originally published by Oxford University Press, 1949), 246.[back]

42. Ibid.[back]

43. Author interview with Curt Meine, director of the Center for Humans and Nature and author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988), August 14, 2009.[back]

44. All data courtesy of Noahas Ark Water Park.[back]

45. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie (New York: HarperCollins, First Harper Trophy edition, 1971), 160.[back]

46. Lien Hoang, aMinnehaha Falls Now a Waterfall in Name Only,a St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 30, 2009.[back]

47. Total daily water withdrawals in the United States were about a hundred billion gallons per day in 1950 and about four hundred billion gallons per day in 2000, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, aEstimated Use of Water in the United States 2000.a[back]

48. Brad Linder, aPhiladelphia Tackles Rainwater Runoff Pollution,a National Public Radio, September 29, 2006, npr.org.[back]

49. Christopher Thacker, The History of Gardens (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), 154.[back]

50. The $680 billion figure is from Datamonitoras Construction & Engineeringa"North America (NAFTA) Industry Guide (August 2009), http://www.mindbranch.com/catalog/print_product_page.jsp?code=R313a"53048.[back]

Chapter 2 Reclamation to Restoration.

1. Samuel P. Shaw and C. Gordon Fredine, Wetlands of the United States: Their Extent and Their Value to Waterfowl and Other Wildlife (Department of the Interior, Circular 39, 1956), available online at http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/wetlands/uswetlan/.[back]

2. T. E. Reilly and others, aGround-Water Availability in the United States: U.S. Geological Surveya (Circular 1323, 2008), 6, http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1323/.[back]

3. H. L. Jelks and others, aConservation Status of Imperiled North American Freshwater and Diadromous Fishes,a Fisheries 33, no. 8 (2008): 372a"407.[back]

4. Patrick McCully, Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams (London: Zed Books, 1996), 7.[back]

5. Wendell R. Haag, aPast and Future Patterns of Freshwater Mussel Extinctions in North America During the Holocene,a in Samuel T. Turvey, ed., Holocene Extinctions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 107a"28.[back]

6. Jelks and others, aConservation Status of Imperiled North American Freshwater and Diadromous Fishes.a[back]

7. Karl Blankens.h.i.+p, aAtlantic Sturgeon Under Consideration for Endangered Species List,a Chesapeake Bay Journal, February 2010.[back]

8. Ibid.[back]

9. Michael Grunwald, aAn Everglades Saga,a Forum [Florida Humanities Council] 33, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 5.[back]

10. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, Waters of Destiny, International Sound Films, Atlanta, 1955.[back]

11. Jack E. Davis, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 299.[back]

12. Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 193.[back]

13. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching G.o.d (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Illini Books edition 1978; originally published 1937), 234a"39.[back]

14. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, Waters of Destiny.[back]

15. aKissimmee River,a South Florida Water Management District, http://my.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/levelthree/kissimmee%20river.[back]

16. Robert P. King, aPollution Still Threatens Everglades,a Palm Beach Post, September 19, 2007.[back]

17. Andy Reid, aCoasts Soar to Clean Pollution, Fix Lake Okeechobee Dike,a South Florida Sun-Sentinel, March 3, 2007.[back]

18. Robert P. King, aLake O Releases Stir Up Regrets as Drought Lasts,a Palm Beach Post, May 28, 2007.[back]

19. a.s.sociated Press, aDrought Forces Water Limits in South Florida,a April 12, 2007.[back]

20. King, aLake O Releases Stir Up Regrets as Drought Lasts.a[back]