Irrigation and Its Economic Influence in the Making of the West
Author : Espy Otto Phares
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : Espy Otto Phares
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1921
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Agriculture
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This publication has been prepared in the interest of a permanent irrigation agriculture. Irrigation has played an important role in the remarkable achievement by farmers in this nation in meeting wartime and postwar production goals. It may play an even greater part in our future agricultural production. The food needs of a growing population and the establishment of desirable trade relations with other nations will require the maintenance of efficient, high-level agricultural production.
Author : Elwood 1858-1936 Mead
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781374561021
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1996-10-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309175755
Irrigated agriculture has played a critical role in the economic and social development of the United Statesâ€"but it is also at the root of increasing controversy. How can irrigation best make the transition into an era of increasing water scarcity? In A New Era for Irrigation, experts draw important conclusions about whether irrigation can continue to be the nation's most significant water user, what role the federal government should play, and what the irrigation industry must do to adapt to the conditions of the future. A New Era for Irrigation provides data, examples, and insightful commentary on issues such as: Growing competition for water resources. Developments in technology and science. The role of federal subsidies for crops and water. Uncertainties related to American Indian water rights issues. Concern about environmental problems. And more. The committee identifies broad forces of change and reports on how public and private institutions, scientists and technology experts, and individual irrigators have responded. The report includes detailed case studies from the Great Plains, the Pacific Northwest, California, and Florida, in both the agricultural and turfgrass sectors. The cultural transformation brought about by irrigation may be as profound as the transformation of the landscape. The committee examines major facets of this cultural perspective and explores its place in the future. A New Era for Irrigation explains how irrigation emerged in the nineteenth century, how it met the nation's goals in the twentieth century, and what role it might play in the twenty-first century. It will be important to growers, policymakers, regulators, environmentalists, water and soil scientists, water rights claimants, and interested individuals.
Author : Darryll Olsen
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Elwood Mead
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2015-12-04
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ISBN : 9781347266090
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Author : Elwood Mead
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2016-05-08
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ISBN : 9781356026371
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Author : Elwood Mead
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781528076944
Excerpt from Irrigation Institutions: A Discussion of the Economic and Legal Questions Created by the Growth of Irrigated Agriculture in the West The arid region of the United States is destined in the near future to have a large place in national affairs. This is due in part to the value of its unused resources and in part to the need of their development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Mark Fiege
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0295989742
Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces—one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology. Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999 Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000
Author : Dallas M. Lea
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Irrigation
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Extract: Beginning with the Mormon colonization of Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847, irrigation has been a significant part of agriculture in the United States. Most of the Nation's irrigated acreage has always been located in the arid and semiarid regions of the West, but in recent years supplemental irrigation has been steadily increasing in the humid East. More farmers in eastern regions are finding that supplemental irrigation is profitable, especially as insurance against crop failures in drought years, and also by increasing average yields. Water supply is apparently the principal constraint to irrigation expansion in the West. Conservation of available water resources is apparently the best measure for expanding irrigation there.