Water War
by Stephen Foehr
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Pub Date Feb 10 2014 | Archive Date Aug 31 2014
Jiri Vanek Publishing | The Editorial Department
Description
“A good ol’ Western, Bad Guys vs Good Guys,
with high tech substituting for six-shooters.”
The Snake Valley Okies are in a water war with the City of Las Vegas. The battles include the bombing of a Las Vegas Water Authority car, the occupation of a Las Vegas golf course, and a naval confrontation on Lake Mead, the murder of a Las Vegas water department geologist and the theft of millions of gallons of water from Las Vegas’s underground reservoir.
The water war pits the Snake Valley Okies against the Lounge Lizards, two Las Vegas cops. The Okies’ intent is to stop the 285-mile pipeline from Las Vegas to the Snake Valley Aquifer, an actual case. The Lounge Lizards set out to remove any Okie standing in there way—using whatever means necessary.
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780615950631 |
| PRICE | $5.00 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Pat I, Reviewer
It's a great premise, but the book itself doesn't do much for me. I kept comparing it to the nonfiction events of "Cadillac Desert," part of the inspiration for books like this, and the fiction version wasn't nearly as engaging.
As the movie quote goes, "Whiskey's for drinkin', water's for fightin'." Such is the case here. In terrain that gets a scant few inches of water annually...and some years none...it can be life and death for a rancher to have his water rights interfered with. It's also life and death to cross the wrong people.
Educator 103439
Loved this book. Easy to get into and read but with a fascinating and strangely believable storyline about ranchers whose land is dying for want of water and a Las Vegas administration who want to steel what little they have!
Would highly recommend it.
Mallory Anne-Marie H, Reviewer
Remember the vicious, sometimes deadly, "water wars" of the 19th century American West and Southwest, between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers; ranchers and towns; ranchers and military outposts? Update to the early 21st century, add the Greater Nevada Desert, the City of Las Vegas, enormous population increases, over-development, greed, struggling ranchers--and stir. Welcome to "WATER WAR."
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