Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Rio Grande (Texas-New Mexico) Irrigation Project
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The Rio Grande Project
Author: Robert AutobeeBuilding the Borderlands
Author: Casey WalshPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603440134
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the making of the Mexican north. The Lower Río Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on the border with Texas in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, was the centerpiece of the Cárdenas government’s effort to make cotton the basis of the national economy. This irrigation district, built and settled by Mexican Americans repatriated from Texas, was a central feature of Mexico’s effort to control and use the waters of the international river for irrigated agriculture. Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Casey Walsh discusses the relations among various groups comprising the “social field” of cotton production in the borderlands. By describing the complex relationships among these groups, Walsh contributes to a clearer understanding of capitalism and the state, of transnational economic forces, of agricultural and water issues in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, and of the environmental impacts of economic development. Building the Borderlands crosses a number of disciplinary, thematic, and regional frontiers, integrating perspectives and literature from the United States and Mexico, from anthropology and history, and from political, economic, and cultural studies. Walsh’s important transnational study will enjoy a wide audience among scholars of Latin American and Western U.S. history, the borderlands, and environmental and agricultural history, as well as anthropologists and others interested in the environment and water rights.
Irrigation in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
Author: Frank E. WozniakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This publication reviews both published and unpublished sources on Puebloan, Hispanic, and AngloAmerican irrigation systems in the Rio Grande Valley. Settlement patterns and Spanish and Mexican land grants in the valley are also discussed. The volume includes an annotated bibliography.
Federal Irrigation Projects
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
On construction, finance, and operation of individual projects, and information for settlers; with data on estimated settlement costs, and list of project offices.
Reclamation Record
Author: The San Juan-Chama Project
Author: Leah S. GlaserElephant Butte Dam
Author: Sherry FletcherPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439652368
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
On November 18, 1904, engineer B.M. Hall submitted his final report to the 12th National Irrigation Congress in El Paso, Texas. He concluded that the ideal location for a dam and reservoir would be a site in western New Mexico. A congressional act of February 25, 1905, authorized the construction of Elephant Butte Dam, the first civil engineering structure concerned with international allocation of water. Part of the Rio Grande Project, the dam and its reservoir would provide irrigation water for farmers along the Rio Grande in New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. Today, Elephant Butte Dam is designated as a National Historical Engineer Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the oldest national professional engineering society in the United States. The area is home to Elephant Butte Lake State Park, where camping, fishing, and water sports are enjoyed by both residents and tourists.
Border Land, Border Water
Author: C. J. AlvarezPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 147731900X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twenty-first century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet. Tracing the accretion of ports of entry, boundary markers, transportation networks, fences and barriers, surveillance infrastructure, and dams and other river engineering projects, C. J. Alvarez advances a broad chronological narrative that captures the full life cycle of border building. He explains how initial groundbreaking in the nineteenth century transitioned to unbridled faith in the capacity to control the movement of people, goods, and water through the use of physical structures. By the 1960s, however, the built environment of the border began to display increasingly obvious systemic flaws. More often than not, Alvarez shows, federal agencies in both countries responded with more construction—“compensatory building” designed to mitigate unsustainable policies relating to immigration, black markets, and the natural world. Border Land, Border Water reframes our understanding of how the border has come to look and function as it does and is essential to current debates about the future of the US-Mexico divide.
Annual Report
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description