Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Lower Colorado River Basin Project: August 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, and September 1, 1965
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Lower Colorado River Basin Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1732
Book Description
Lower Colorado River Basin Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 17. Considers H.R. 4671 and similar bills, to authorize construction, operation, and maintenance of the Lower Colorado River Basin Project.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1856
Book Description
Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: As Precious as Blood
Author: Steven C. SchultePublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607325004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The diversion of water from Colorado’s Western Slope to meet the needs of the rest of the state has been a contentious issue throughout Colorado’s history. The source of Colorado’s water is in the snow that accumulates west of the Continental Divide, but the ever-growing population on the Front Range continues to require more municipal water. In As Precious as Blood, Steven C. Schulte examines the water wars between these two regions and how the western part of the state fits into Colorado’s overall water story, expanding the account of water politics he began in Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West. Slow to build its necessary water infrastructure and suffering from a small population, little political power, and distance from sources of capital, the Western Slope of Colorado has struggled to maintain its water supply in the face of challenges from the Eastern Slope as well as from surrounding states. Schulte explains in detail the reasons, rationalizations, and resources involved in the multimillion-dollar dams and reclamation projects that divert much-needed water to the Front Range and elsewhere. He draws from archives, newspapers, and oral histories to show the interrelationships among twentieth-century Colorado water law, legislators from across the state, and powerful members of congress from the Western Slope, who have influenced water policy throughout the American West. As Precious as Blood provides context for one of the most contentious legal, political, and economic periods in the state’s history. Schulte puts a human face on Colorado’s water wars by exploring their social and political dimensions alongside the technical and scientific perspectives.
Summary Report of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior and Statistical Appendix
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
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Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Saving Grand Canyon
Author: Byron E PearsonPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1948908328
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards 2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America The Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific Southwest. These efforts reached their climax during the 1960s when the federal government tried to build two massive hydroelectric dams in the Grand Canyon. Although not located within the Grand Canyon National Park or Monument, they would have flooded lengthy, unprotected reaches of the canyon and along thirteen miles of the park boundary. Saving Grand Canyon tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America’s most spectacular natural wonders. Based on twenty-five years of research, this fascinating ride through history chronicles a hundred years of Colorado River water development, demonstrates how the National Environmental Policy Act came to be, and challenges the myth that the Sierra Club saved the Grand Canyon. It also shows how the Sierra Club parlayed public perception as the canyon’s savior into the leadership of the modern environmental movement after the National Environmental Policy Act became law. The tale of the Sierra Club stopping the dams has become so entrenched—and so embellished—that many historians, popular writers, and filmmakers have ignored the documented historical record. This epic story puts the events from 1963–1968 into the broader context of Colorado River water development and debunks fifty years of Colorado River and Grand Canyon myths.
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