Dr. Thomas Holyoke, professor of political science at Fresno State, was dissatisfied with the textbooks he was using for his class on water policy, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. “I decided to write my own book and it kind of became this larger project about the fragmentation of water policy,” Holyoke said. Holyoke’s book, “Water Politics: The Fragmentation of Western Water Policy,” was released on Nov. 13. The book is about the enactment of government policy regarding the use of water in the western United States and its eventual fragmentation, in part due to the rise of environmentalism as a political force.