Author: Paul N. Wilson
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Author: Lawrence E. Mack
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Rosanna Mentzer Morrison
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources
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Category : Central Arizona project
Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Considers S. 1004, S. 861, and related bills, to authorize construction, operation, and maintenance of Hooker Dam and reservoir on Gila River, NMex, as part of Central Arizona Project, Arizona-New Mexico.

Author: Bonnie G. Colby
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136525424
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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The central challenge for Arizona and many other arid regions in the world is keeping a sustainable water supply in the face of rapid population growth and other competing demands. This book highlights new approaches that Arizona has pioneered for managing its water needs. The state has burgeoning urban areas, large agricultural regions, water dependent habitats for endangered fish and wildlife, and a growing demand for water-based recreation. A multi-year drought and climate-related variability in water supply complicate the intense competition for water. Written by well-known Arizona water experts, the essays in this book address these issues from academic, professional, and policy perspectives that include economics, climatology, law, and engineering. Among the innovations explored in the book is Arizona‘s Groundwater Management Act. Arizona is not alone in its challenges. As one of the seven states in the Colorado River Basin that depend heavily on the river, Arizona must cooperate, and sometimes compete, with other state, tribal, and federal governments. One institution that furthers regional cooperation is the water bank, which encourages groundwater recharge of surplus surface water during wet years so that the water remains available during dry years. The Groundwater Management Act imposes conservation requirements and establishes planning and investment programs in renewable water supplies. The essays in Arizona Water Policy are accessible to a broad policy-oriented and nonacademic readership. The book explores Arizona‘s water management and extracts lessons that are important for arid and semi-arid areas worldwide.

Author: Jack L. August
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875655483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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From the author of Dividing Western Waters comes a book on the development of the arid West--in particular the development of Arizona--as seen through the experiences of three generations of John Ruddle Nortons of Arizona. From the administration of Teddy Roosevelt and the earliest reclamation acts to the monumental case between California and Arizona that would determine how the life-giving waters of the Colorado River would be divided, the Nortons were at the center of Arizona's development into a vital population and agricultural center. Pioneers like the Nortons shaped the very landscape of the western United States--a region that would help to supply the United States with cotton, vegetables, and livestock throughout World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. The Norton Trilogy follows the lives of John R. Norton (1854-1923) and the beginnings of Arizona farming; John R. Norton, Jr. (1901-1987) and his expansions into diverse crops; and John R. Norton III (1929-present) and the shaping of modern agribusiness as it responded to new water irrigation policies. As the author points out, "Several themes run through The Norton Trilogy: the most important is the interplay between human values and the waterscape. Technology, of course, played a monumental role in this drama, for dynamite, bulldozers, and reinforced concrete impacted the region's water and shaped the agricultural economy more than any Indian's digging stick. Another theme is the central role played by government--local, state, regional, and national--in shaping water policies. The biographical profiles of each John Norton addressed in this work reveal much about the history of Arizona and the central role that the quest for water has played in the growth and development of the region." Although the book focuses largely on the state of Arizona, and specifically on one Arizonan family, the story is a template of the hardworking American ideal. Senator John Kyl, a colleague of John Norton III, writes in the foreword, “The Nortons, who never suffered from lack of a work ethic, have made Arizona and the nation a better place. This book is as much an American story as it is an Arizona one.” Readers everywhere will be captivated by the generation-to-generation struggles of a family business and how these failures and successes are affected by interstate politics and public policy.

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Languages : en
Pages : 594

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
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Category : Central Arizona Project
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 1410

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