Yuma’s irrigation has caused many things to happen in Yuma County. There was several events that happened due to the irrigation that caused Yuma to grow more and more. Therefore Yuma’s irrigation changed a lot, the developers had challenges they had to face, different groups in Yuma had to face the Yuma Project changing things, and also technology changed Yuma in many ways. In this essay, you will learn about the events and why some of these events were important to Yuma Counties irrigation system. The irrigation system has changed a lot throughout the years in Yuma Arizona. Some things that changed in Yuma county was the population. In 1912 the population of Yuma county was 5.029. Then throughout the years the population began to grow and …show more content…
Bureau of Reclamation Project that was built to help irrigate over 68,000 acres of land in the Yuma County and some parts of California. They would be getting water from the Colorado River year-round that would help farming conditions. Yet once the Laguna Dam was built, it had blocked the water therefore it resulted in the steamboats not being able to travel up from the Gulf of Mexico. This meant that if the steamboats could not pass then the goods on the steamboat would not be delivered to Yuma County and to all the other places they travel to. Also another thing that was important to the groups was that it caused them to travel to …show more content…
The technology made Yuma become an even bigger and better agricultural environment. An important thing involving technology is the Yuma siphon. It has still been working for over 100 years and it irrigates about 50,000 acres of many farmlands. Yet in 1854, they wanted to be able to irrigate lands up in Yuma Valley but they were not successful enough. Therefore in 1902 they had passed a Reclamation Act for authorizing irrigation projects. Now this is when a group of farmers came up with the Yuma Project and that was very important to Yuma County as well. They wanted the Laguna Dam and the Main Yuma Canal to be involved in the irrigation project. This caused a lot of steamboats to now travel and the river and bring goods to Yuma County and all the other towns. Yet when the laguna Dam was built, this caused steamboats to stop coming and therefore lead us into having irrigated agriculture. The technology helped Yuma County a lot with becoming an agricultural place. Without all this technology we would not be as successful as we are now in Yuma County. It also helped build all of our dams and canals as well. Yet it also helped us expand into our city that we live in today all because of our dams, canals and our mighty Colorado River. Also the workers made our city successful as well. Therefore Yuma was a very successful place due to Technology and also the Yuma
In December 1936 the United States Department of the Interior authorized the Lower Colorado River Authority to construct a low dam at the site of an old crossing on the river known as Marshall Ford. Marshall Ford Dam was completed in 1941 through the collaboration of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) of Texas. The original purpose of the dam was to prevent floods from devastating Austin, TX. The capital city had substandard heavy damage from previous floods since its establishment in 1846. Soon bureaucrats came together to create the Colorado River Project, wanting to create a series of dams along the Colorado River to create hydroelectric power and serve to control floods and droughts. With Buchanan dam well under way with a total of six planned Marshall Ford was the only dam designed primarily for flood control and the only dam in which USBR oversaw construction. With money scarce there was debate over the final height dam and it reservoir capacity. This issue resolves itself with the flood of 1938. Once completed Marshall Ford Dam would flood 65 miles of the Colorado to form Lake Travis, creating the largest of the seven reservoirs known as the Highland Lakes.
Congress to delete Echo Park Dam from the Colorado River Project in 1955. Other projects
The primary goal of the dam, irrigation, was forgotten as the war time need for electricity increased. Aluminum smelting was vital to the war effort. Aluminum smelting requires substantial amounts of electricity and hydroelectric power plants are often built to provide electricity for these smelts. The electricity was also used to produce uranium for the Manhattan Project. After the war ended the original goal of irrigation resumed. Additional dams, siphons and canals were constructed that turned the coulee into a vast supply network that allowed the desert to bloom.
Conclusion: One of the greatest economic booms in history had an everlasting ripple effect on culture, businesses, and lifestyle in Texas. The discovery of oil in Texas allowed America to take leap forward into a leading nation. Texas oil gave America a fighting edge to win the war, gave Americans advantage to travel faster and quicker. Texas oil helped America go from agriculture nation into the top industrial nation much quicker than anticipated.
Manufacturing companies and jobs started to move and build their way up in Colorado. This opened even more opportunity for Colorado to grow. While people were moving to and visit...
In the 1898 mayoral election, Frederick Eaton was elected as mayor of Los Angeles; and appointed his associate, William Mulholland- the superintendent of the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Eaton and Mulholland envisioned a region of Los Angeles that would make Los Angeles become the turn of the century. The limiting factor of that regions growth was water supply. Eaton and Mulholland realized that the Owens Valley had a large amount of runoff from the Sierra Nevada, and a gravity-fed aqueduct that could deliver the Owens water to Los Angeles. During the early 1900’s the United States Bureau of Reclamation made plans to build an irrigation system to help the farmers of the Owens Valley. By 1905, through purchases, and alleged intimidation and bribery, Los Angeles purchased enough water rights to enable construction of the aqueduct.
Isenberg explains that three actions took place to help build and stabilize the California economy during the time period, hydraulic mining, city building in Sacramento, and logging of the redwood forests. The hydraulic mining promotes more machinery-based mining. This technology helped increase effectiveness of mining and allowed ...
The growth of agriculture and railroads in Texas and in the United States helped form our economy today. Railroads today pass through a lot of Texas, and even in big cities like Houston or Dallas. Since there are so many farms and open farmland (especially in south and west Texas), railroads can carry the produce and livestock to their destination. James Watt invented the first steam engine in about 1769, and from then on, railroads were a must for transportation, since cars had yet to be invented. Railroads began to be built before the Civil War. It originally took about 6 months to get from the west of the US to the east, but now it only took 7 days. With railroads expanding all across the country, agriculture was affected in a mostly positive way. Now, crops and other goods could be transported by train anywhere in the US, and fast.
Over the years Glen Canyon Dam has been the spark for hundreds of debates, rallies, and protests. These debates have been going on for almost forty years now. The fact is that the dam created a huge lake when it was built, this is what bothers environmentalists. This lake is called Lake Powell and thousands of people depend on its tourists for income. The lake also filled up a canyon called Glen Canyon, some people say it was the most beautiful place on earth. The anti-dam side of the debate has its basis in the fact that Lake Powell is currently covering Glen Canyon. It was very remote so few people got to witness its splendor. This is probably the reason the dam was built in the first place, ignorance.
...gration in population, help the California economy by building many businesses and caused violent conflicts between diverse groups of people. The Gold Rush in 1851 changed California.
As in any time period, significant technological advances were made from 1877 to 1933. Since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in America, new technologies and advancements are being made every day. This Revolution has transformed the economy and in turn transformed every aspect of American life. An important effect of the Industrial Revolution was the Agricultural Revolution, when new advances in farming were made. In the area of farming, the government passed laws and regulations that were significant in the ...
Fact: Arizona is in a 10-year drought. Fact: The city of Phoenix has a water problem that has nothing to do with lack thereof. A hundred years ago or more humans would just drink from a river or stream, but today we need purified, cleansed, and filter water. We do, as a state have a water treatment system in place but the faculties periodically need maintenance and must be shut down to receive it. The Water Department and their puppet master Frank Fairbanks the city mangers have been playing Russian roulette with the citizen of Phoenix. The bet you ask, will the shut down of facilities due to maintenance leave the citizens of Phoenix with a contaminated water system. We learn the answer to that question on the 25 of January the city council and water department both lost that bet. The water supply was contaminated, water had to be boiled to make in safe and long showers were not advisable. How can we as voters keep this from happening again? The short answer is building another water treatment facility, for the details read on.
The implementation of railroad throughout the Mexico and its border region had a great impact on the economic and population growth of Mexico during the late 19th century. Ganster and Lorey explain in their book “The U.S.-Mexico Border into the Twenty-First Century” that the Mexican President, Porfirio Diaz, was determined to ensure that there was “order and progress” in Mexico in hopes to encourage “economic development”. (Ganster/Lorey 35) Soon after the first railroad was developed in the West, rival lines began to “establish major routes in the Southwest that linked most of the important population centers in the border region with one another and with eastern markets”. (Ganster/Lorey 36) In 1881 the first transcontinental railroad to pass directly through the border region was completed, “it linked the area to the western and eastern seaboards of the U.S.”. (Ganster/Lorey 36) The railroad resulted in a population growth of the Mexican town and cities. For example Salinas, Coahuila grew from a population on 778 in 1877 to nearly 15, 000 by 1910”...
...f towns and cities that still exist today. In addition, the opening of mines created jobs which had a positive impact on the economy while the decline of mines led to a sharp decrease in population due to the lack of job opportunities. The era of copper mining also shows the powerful alliance that had formed between Michigan and Boston. Both Michigan mine operators and Boston investors had different kinds of resources that the other lacked. It can be seen that Michigan would not be the way it is today without outside influence from investors and interested prospectors.
In our generation of new technologies and high civilization it is hard to believe that our World is in Water crisis. This crisis is affecting not only low-developed parts of the world but also it affects high-developed countries, about one third of the humanity suffers from the scarcity of water (Molden 2010). One of the main causes of it is overpopulation. In increasing water demand water sources which we have now are not able to renew themselves. Another factor of water scarcity is not economized water consumption. Nowadays most of countries are beginning to realize that solving the problem of scarcity of water is very crucial. One of them is Mexico where water shortage is the national problem.