Yes, it's an outstanding book, well worth reading:

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, by Marc Reisner, Penguin Books, 1986, 1993.

A recent perspective on this excellent book by Ryan Cooper is also very good. He says that journalists in the 1970s and 80s were infected with Reaganite ideology and made some mistakes. Worth reading:

https://prospect.org/2025/12/12/cadillac-desert-reconsidered...