Significant Individuals Within Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Marc Reisner

Wayne Aspinall
Congressmen from Colorado who served as chairman of the House of Interior Committee in the late 1969
Denied California & Arizona water projects because they voted against his Colorado projects
David Brower
As a devote conservationist, Brower strongly opposed dams and repeatedly fought the Bureau of Reclamation.
He battled then-Commissioner Floyd Dominy over Grand Canyon dams, and won.
Edmund G Brown Sr.
Brown became the California State governor in 1958
Him and his son Jerry also helped put together the State Water Project, California's most expensive water system.…