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street-cleaning programs, systematic, 197
Supreme Court
on Boulder Canyon Project Act, 136, 323n
on Gibbons v. Ogden, 40, 41, 42
on interstate conflict over Laramie River, 131
on Kansas v. Colorado, 127
on TVA, 243, 250–51
on water rights of Native American tribes, 152–53, 154
Susquehanna Canal, 70
Susquehanna River, 12, 233
Sutter’s Mill, Calif., 121, 122
Swamp Land Acts, 75
swamplands, 75
swaps, interest rate, 207–14
Syracuse, N.Y., 31, 32
Tar River Company, 29
Tarzwell, Clarence, 332n
taxation, 14
Federalist Papers on, 51–52, 160
Great Depression and, 192–93
of imports, 52, 160–61, 163
income, 191, 193, 203, 207
property, 183–84, 192, 193
Tea Party movement, 116–17
telephone industry, 238–39
Tellico Dam, 249–51, 252–53, 254, 331n
Tennessee Electric Power Company, 241
Tennessee River, 12, 46, 49, 83, 244, 245, 249
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 197, 239–47, 253–54
environmental regulation and, 247, 249–51, 252–53, 254
founding of, 235, 240
later criticism of, 245
Lilienthal as director of, 13, 237, 239–41, 242, 243–44, 245, 246
rates set by, 240–41, 242, 330n
Supreme Court decisions on, 243, 250
Tellico Dam and, 249–51, 252–53, 254, 331n
Wilson Dam and, 235–36, 240, 241, 242, 243, 246
TEPCO, 243
Texas, 80, 115, 142, 182
textile industry, 12, 223, 224, 225–26, 227, 296
Thirty Years’ War, 126
Thompson, Bobby, 64, 86
Thompson, Doug, 259, 260, 264–65, 268–69, 271, 297
Thompson, John, 67
timber, processing of, 221–22
Time Magazine, 201
tolls, 30
tows, barge, 44–46, 50, 51, 315n
toxic waste in rivers, 195–96
Treaty of Paris, 17, 47
Treaty of Westphalia, 126–27
tree-ring studies in calculating streamflow, 149–52
Trenton, N.J., 11
trout streams, 259
Campbell’s restoration of, 300, 301–2, 303, 304, 305
Catskills fishermen’s restoration of, 261–63, 266, 267, 303
consulting firms’ restoration of, 286
decrease in trout in, 258, 261
Michigan School’s restoration of, 266–68, 269, 303
Troy, N.Y., 23, 24, 31
trusts, power, 234–35, 238
TVA, see Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Twain, Mark, 51, 52–53, 271
typhoid, 171, 173
United States
dams in industrialization of, 220–21, 223–29
Mexico’s negotiations with, 128, 323n
overview of rivers in, 9–14, 10, 19
population density in, 12
post-Revolutionary War hostility between Britain and, 37
University of Arizona, 150
University of Michigan, 266–68, 269–70, 275, 302, 332n
University of Virginia, 37
Unnamed Tributary 1, 257
Urbani, Joe, 284
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 136, 137, 138–39, 236, 245, 266, 330n
U.S. Geological Survey, 83, 132, 278
U.S. Guano Act, 204
U.S. Military Academy, 35, 38
U.S. Northern Command, 107
Utah, 119, 124, 125, 132, 134, 137
Utica, N.Y., 31
Van Cleef, James Spencer, 261–63, 267, 269, 270, 271, 275, 285, 303
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 39
vanilla bonds, 210–11
variable-rate bonds, 209, 210–12
Vasquez, Vince, 140, 142, 143–45, 146, 147, 152
Vermont, 229
Vicksburg, Miss., 11, 45, 59, 60, 62, 66
Virginia, 80, 164
WAM (Water Asset Management), 140, 142–45, 146, 147
Wasatch Mountains, 124
Washington, 80, 146, 289
Washington, D.C., 11, 35, 80
Washington, George, 17–18, 19–22, 35, 37
Washington Monument, 80
Washington Post, 97
Washington Water Power Company, 234
waste management in Chicago, 166, 168, 170–71, 177–79
waste treatment
before disposal, debate over, 174–76
time as key in, 179–80, 186–87
wastewater treatment plant operators, 185
wastewater treatment plants
in Durham, N.C., 185–86, 188–89, 190–91, 193, 194, 205–6
federal funding for, 202
Jefferson County’s use of swaps to finance, 207–8, 210–14
modern, 186, 187–90
number of, by 1990, 202–3
water
conflicts over, see water wars
contaminated, disease and, 171, 173
dividing, 120
as property, 120–21
Water Asset Management (WAM), 140, 142–45, 146, 147
water-carriage sewer system, 168, 169, 174, 180, 205
water filtration, 173, 174
water infrastructure, use of interest rate swaps in financing of, 207–14
water law, 120–21
eastern, 121, 123
western, 122–24
water pollution, 214
“cap and trade” approach to reducing, 291
federal regulations on, 202
see also Clean Water Act (1972)
from fertilizer, 203–6
from industrial waste, 195–96, 199–202, 203
from municipal waste, 197–98, 203
Reagan Revolution and, 203
river self-purification to justify, 174
women as activists in battling, 196–97, 198–99, 200
water quality, see conservation; water pollution
Water Resources Development Act (1986), 88
water rights markets, 142–47
water wars
interstate, 115, 125–26, 127, 128–35, 138–39, 144, 151
over Klamath River, 115–18, 119–20, 127, 153–54
states’ sovereignty in, 124, 127, 153–54
Webb, Walter, 322n
weirs, 263, 267, 271, 284, 300, 301–2
West Point, 35, 37–38, 72, 89, 90, 97
West Virginia, 80
wetland credits, 292–93, 297
White Sturgeon River, 234
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 123
Willkie, Wendell, 236, 236–37, 239, 241, 242, 243, 244, 250, 330n
Willowemoc Club, 263, 266, 302
Wilmington, Del., 228
Wilson, Woodrow, 65
Wilson Dam, 235–36, 240, 241, 242, 243, 246
Wind River, 261
Wisconsin, 145, 232, 234, 238–40, 241, 242, 279, 287, 288
Wisconsin Telephone Company, 238
Wise, Erika, 147, 148–50, 152
Wolman, Abel, 279–80
Wolman, Gordon (“Reds”), 278–79, 280–81, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 300
women activists in conservation, 196–97, 198–99, 200
World War I, 191, 235
World War II, 12, 193, 246–47
Wyoming, 125, 132, 134, 286
Big Horn basin, 124
Grayrocks project in, 251–52
interstate conflict over water, 131
stream restoration in, 270, 286
tree rings from Snake River in, 149
Wind River in, 261
Yazoo Backwater Project, 86–87, 88
Yorktown, Va., 35
Zionists, 126
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