The Weber River Basin: Grass Roots Democracy and Water Development
Language: English
Published by Utah State Univ Pr, Logan, Utah, U.S.A., 1994
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- Title
- The Weber River Basin: Grass Roots Democracy and Water Development
- Author
- Sadler, Richard W.;Roberts, Richard C.
- Publisher
- Utah State Univ Pr, Logan, Utah, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Near Fine
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0874211646
- ISBN 13
- 9780874211641
Authors Sadler and Roberts focus on how the Weber contributed to the settlement and development of a sizable portion of the Wasatch Front. Early Mormon settlers in Utah quickly turned to irrigation to sustain their farms on the edge of the Great Basin desert. In doing so they were attempting to manage and manipulate water resources on a scale that was unprecedented for citizens of the United States. Through grass roots efforts encouraged and at first partly directed by Mormon church leaders, they dug canals and constructed the works that would move water from streams to fields. State laws were written that recognized and legitimized practices that the farmers already employed. Fundamental to these laws were the prior appropriation doctrine and principles of broad local involvement in decision making and control of water. State legislation and federal policy in subsequent years adjusted to shifting patterns in the national political and economic climate, but these fundamentals remained.
By the middle decades of the twentieth century, the federal government, in the form of the Bureau of Reclamation, began taking a more active role in water development, especially by constructing dams of a size beyond the means of local water users. Today, the Weber River provides water for farms and lawns and for recreation in five counties in northern Utah, some of which lie outside its basin. The Bureau of Reclamation has come under close scrutiny and criticism by recent scholars for policies of water diversion and exploitation that is imposed on the West, but the authors here conclude that the bureau came to the Weber River Basin at the urging and invitation of local citizens and that the impact of its construction projects was largely beneficial. It was thus one more indication of, and response to, the democratic impulse that shaped Weber River water development.
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