I'm gonna plug a recommendation here based on your comment: if anyone wants to marvel or horrify at the US' water development history, Cadillac Desert is an excellent read, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert .
Cadillac Desert is on the bookshelf of every educated person in the western United States.
Downvoted for the truth. Everyone recommending this book now is young because literally everyone who likes to read nonfiction was reading it in the 90s