Book ID: CBB248036903

The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority (2016)

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Williams, John (Author)
Sansom, Andrew (Author)


Texas A&M University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 320
Language: English

Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power—and with that, modern-day civilization—to the hard-scrabble regions of Central and South Texas. With those achievements, and the support of powerful political leaders like Lyndon Johnson, LCRA for years was touted as one of the state’s major success stories. But LCRA has never been a stranger to controversy, and while it continues to provide much of the energy and water that fuels the economic engine of Austin and beyond, most people know very little about LCRA. In this book, readers will learn about the forces of nature and politics that combined to create LCRA; the colorful personalities who operated, supported, or fought with the agency; its spectacular successes, periodic blunders, and occasional failures; and its evolution into one of the largest public power organizations in Texas. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

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Review Jonathan Foster (July 2017) Review of "The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority". Environmental History (pp. 565-567). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bonan, Giacomo
Raito, Leonardo
David A. Poirier
Margaret Cook
Silvano, Giovanni
Franco Pozzati
Concepts
Rivers
Water resource management
Environmental history
Floods
Dams
Hydroelectric power
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
Early modern
Places
United States
Italy
Colorado River (North America)
Texas (U.S.)
Mexico
Adige River
Institutions
World Bank
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