Many projects, while costing taxpayers billions, disproportionately benefited a small number of large-scale farmers who relied on artificially cheap water.
Reisner argues that the West's hydroclimate is inherently incapable of supporting the vast cities and industrial agriculture established there. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disa...
Water development was driven less by necessity and more by political capital, bureaucratic rivalry (specifically between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers ), and class interests. while costing taxpayers billions
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