Beyond Chinatown The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, And the Environment in Southern California

"Erie's persuasive argument that the Metropolitan Water District is one of the creative but flawed designers of Southern California is haunted by forgetfulness: We forget where our water comes from....We forget who manages it for us and why water policy is the most important political decision we never get to make....Unfortunately forgetting is what we're best at. It helps explains why we can't move beyond the myths of Chinatown without stories about Los Angeles as reasoned and convincing as Erie's."L.A. Times Book Review "Water history is tough to write, and no one has done it better than Steven P. Erie in this fast-paced narrative based on monumental research. I marvel at the multi-faceted inclusiveness of this story of water, region, politics, engineering, growth, and the environment."Kevin Starr, University of Southern CaliforniaErie, Steven P. is the author of 'Beyond Chinatown The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, And the Environment in Southern California', published 2006 under ISBN 9780804751391 and ISBN 0804751390.