Contents

Author’s Note

xi

Prologue

xiii

Part I. Hope and Hopelessness 

1. To Have and Have Not

3

2. The Aral Experiment

22 

3. Rising Temperatures, Falling Water?

40

4. Aversion to Diversion

57

Part II. Battle Lines and Skirmishes   

5. Reversing a River

85

6. Long Lac and Ogoki

110 

7. Pleasing Pleasant Prairie

125

8. Sacrificing Lowell

139 

9. Tapping Mud Creek

154 

10. Akron Gets the Nod

172 

Part III. New Rules of Engagement 

11. The Nova Group and Annex 2001

193 

12. Marching toward a Compact

211

13. Waukesha Worries

240

14. Who Will Win the War?

256

Epilogue

273

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276

Notes

277

Index

296

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