| Category | Water |
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| Keywords | policy/regulation, political organizing, water access rights |
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| Title | California Water Politics: Opposition to the CVP, 1944–1980 |
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| Comments | Provides a history of the state of California’s Central Valley Project, which, since the 1950s, stores and generates power from water in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Much of the water from the CVP is diverted to urban areas in coastal California. The CVP was originally opposed by valley economic interests such as large farmers. These conflicts were later settled through the development of agricultural subsidies, which the article argues against. |
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| Author(s) | Lee, L. B. |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Appeared In | Agricultural History #54, pp. 402–423 |
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