<Tab/>California's lack of water is a concern for many people. The use of irrigation techniques must be controlled to help reduce pollution of water resources, destruction of land, and the devastation effects it has on the population. Water has been critical in the shaping of the human history. It has shaped institutions, destroyed cities, set limits to expansion, brought feast and famine, washed away sickness, divided nations, and disposed of …showed first 75 words of 1273 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1273 total…to the Golden State. Hastings House, New York, Jan 1942. Reisner, Marc. "Things Fall Apart." California dreams and Realities. Ed.Maasik, Solomon. 2nd ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. 198-201. Water Resources Center Archives, "Liquid Gold, California's Water." Doe Library, U.C. Berkeley, Jan - Dec 97, 9 May 2002 <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/exhibit.html> Worster, Donald "Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West", New York; Oxford University Press, 1985, 19-61.