books.google.com - "The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes...http://books.google.com/books/about/Cadillac_Desert.html?id=frvKDY0rpToC&q=owens+valley&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCadillac Desert
