le to gain the upper hand over the past two decades in their struggle to influence California water policy, a policy that now considers stream protection, water marketing, and wise management in addition to development alternatives. The dam fights in California demonstrate water policy that, ultimately, is shaped by the people.
Prior to World War II public policy controversies seldom changed California water policy in any dramatic fashion, until the centuryÆs most famous dam fight in San Francisco over the Hetch Hetchy Valley of Yosemite National Park.
Dam fights between ôdam backersö and ôdam fightersö have begun to influence dramatic change in water policy in California during the 1969-1
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