Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Reclamation Handbook: A Compendium of Information on the Reasons for and the Development, Operations, and Results of Conserving Water and Reclaiming Land in the Western United States
The great Central Valley Reclamation project now under construction in California illustrates the point clearly. It will serve the following purposes: (1) The irrigation of about acres of equally rich lands now inadequately supplied with water; (2) the improvement of naviga tion of two important rivers; (3) the reduction of ?ood damages to highly developed lands along these rivers; (4) the production of low-cost power for a rapidly growing market, of major importance in the war effort; (5) the provision of a safe fresh water supply for cities and industries as well as for farms; (6) the regulation of the ?uctuating ?ow of the rivers for the protection of domestic water supply, industrial water supply, and of acres of fertile delta lands now threatened with ruin by the infiltration of salt water from the sea; and (7) the creation of recreational and wildlife areas.
In the West where the Bureau of Reclamation operates are more than acres of arid and semiarid lands. Irrigation is meces sary for general farming, and close settlement of rural areas cannot be achieved without it. Since the maintenance of most of the population is dependent on irrigation, the use of the available water for irrigation generally is considered the primary use, excepting only its use for domestic purposes.
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