Political, social, and economic effects of water policy in California: a case study of the San Joaquin Valley Interagency Drainage Program
The problem of salt build-up and high water tables currently plaguing the west side of California's San Joaquin Valley threatens over one million acres of valuable farmland. In 1975, the Interagency Drainage Program (IDP) was instituted to resolve that dilemma. The IDP, a joint venture involving the State of California's Department of Water Resources and State Water Resources Control Board and the Federal Government's Bureau of Reclamation, issued its Final Report in 1979. Among other things, the Final Report Recommended the staged construction of a state and federal drainage disposal canal (salt drain) along the length of the western San Joaquin Valley (290 miles) discharging in Suisun Bay. The decision to build the drain will affect profoundly the political economy of California. This study focuses on relationships between political systems and the social, political, historical, and physical factors that affect those systems. It argues that politics and economics combine in complex and often convoluted ways.
- OSTI ID:
- 5528314
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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