Barry, John M. Rising Tide The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Print. (Enid Baxter Blader)

Blatter, Joachim. Reflections on Water. New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and Cooperation. S. l: MIT, MIT, The MIT, MIT. Print. (Cynthia Hooper)

"Brief History." Bureau of Reclamation Homepage. Web. 10 Feb. 2010. www.usbr.gov/history/borhist.html. (Enid Baxter Blader)

DeBuys, William. Salt Dreams Land and Water in Low-Down California. New York: University of New Mexico, 2001. Print. (Enid Baxter Blader)

Glennon, Robert. Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It. 1st ed. Washington D.C.: Island, 2009. Print. (Enid Baxter Blader)

Gottlieb, Robert. Reinventing Los Angeles nature and community in the global city. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2007. Print.

Hendricks, Stephenie. Divine Destruction Wise Use, Dominion Theology And The Making of American Environmental Policy (Melville Manifestos). New York: Melville House, 2005. Print. (Enid Baxter Blader)

Hise, Greg, and William Deverell. Eden by Design The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region. New York: University of California, 2000. Print.

Hood, Charles. Rio De Dios. Red Hen, 2007. Print. (Charles Hood)

Hundley, Norris. Great thirst Californians and water : a history. Berkeley: University of California, 2001. Print. (Enid Baxter Blader)

Illich, Ivan. H?O and the waters of forgetfulness reflections on the historicity of "stuff" Dallas: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1985. Print. (Steve Badgett)

Jane., Wolff,. Delta primer a field guide to the California Delta. San Francisco: William Stout, Distributed in North America by RAM Publications and Distribution, 2003. Print.

Jenkins, Garry. The Wizard of Sun City The Strange True Story of Charles Hatfield, the Rainmaker Who Drowned a City's Dreams. New York: Thunder's Mouth, 2005. Print. (Nicole Antebi)

Kahrl, William L. Water and Power The Conflict over Los Angeles Water Supply in the Owens Valley. New York: University of California, 1983. Print.

Klein, Joe. Woody Guthrie A Life. Bloomington: Delta, 1999. Print. (Enid Baxter Blader)

Mike, Davis,. City of quartz excavating the future in Los Angeles. London: Verso, 2006. Print. (Enid Baxter Blader)

Monsma, Bradley John. The Sespe Wild Southern California's Last Free River (Environmental Arts and Humanities). New York: University of Nevada, 2007. Print.

Powers, Edward. War and the Weather. New York: Knight and Leanord, 1890
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Reisner, Marc. Cadillac desert the American West and its disappearing water. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Penguin, 1993. Print. (Nicole Antebi, Enid Baxter Blader)

Solnit, Rebecca. Storming the Gates of Paradise Landscapes for Politics. New York: University of California, 2008. Print. (Nicole Antebi)

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Woelfle-Erskine, Cleo, July Oskar Cole, and Laura Allen, eds. Dam Nation Dispatches from the Water Underground. New York: Soft Skull, 2007. Print.

California and Water Chronology
www.geosun.sjsu.edu/~sedlock/Chronology.pdf

Bureau of Reclamation: a Brief History 
www.usbr.gov/history/borhist.html