ANNA KEESEY’S WATER WARS PICKS 1. Cadillac Desert (Marc Reisner; Penguin Books): This tome is a dashing, electrically interesting history of water in the West. Reading this in my 20s transformed the way I thought about the land where I’d grown up. Suddenly, I understood the film Chinatown! 2. Rivers of Empire (Donald Worster; Oxford University Press): This is a beautifully written and intense account of the way we’ve historically used hydraulic projects to “reclaim” the arid West, and
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