Download or read book Irrigation Projects in Indian Country written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irrigation Projects in Indian Country written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigation projects in Indian country : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, September 10, 2014.
Download or read book Irrigation Projects in Indian Country written by United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigation projects in Indian country : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, September 10, 2014.
Download or read book Irrigation Projects in Indian Country written by Committee on Committee on Indian Affairs United States Senate and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigation systems are vitally important for economic development on a number of reservations in this Country. Often these systems benefit both Indian and non-Indian communities. There are over 100 irrigation systems across Indian Country that are owned and managed by the Department of Interior. These systems range in size, the smallest may focus on only subsistence farming while some of the larger projects can span tens of thousands of acres of critical components for the tribal economies that they serve. All together, these irrigation systems reach about 1 billion acres. A smaller set of revenue-generating irrigation projects make up the bulk of that acreage, and BIA estimates that the projects lead to about $300 million worth of agricultural crops grown each year. While these irrigation projects are important to reservation economies, they have been allowed to deteriorate for decades. In 2006, a GAO study found that these projects had hundreds of millions of dollars in deferred maintenance needs. More recent estimates by the BIA place the maintenance needs at about $600 million.
Download or read book S 438 the Irrigate Act written by Committee on Indian Affairs United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1880s and early 1890s, the Department of Interior initiated irrigation projects across Indian reservations in the west. These irrigation projects were intended to be a central component for tribal economies. Construction of these projects ended sometime in the 1940s and many irrigation projects were never fully completed. In 2006, the Government Accountability Office found many of these projects were plagued by maintenance issues, structural deficiencies and insufficient funding for project operations. Many ranchers and farmers, both Indian and non-Indian, still depend on the Bureau of Indian Affairs to deliver water for their needs. While the Bureau has indicated the current backlog costs exceed $567 million, some Indian tribes have estimated it may be even higher than that, much higher. Careful management of the water in Indian communities is essential if we are to ensure a reliable supply for the future. The IRRIGATE Act would bring the Indian irrigation projects into the 21st century. It would authorize $35 million each year beginning in fiscal year 2016 until fiscal year 2036 to begin addressing the deferred maintenance needs. The Federal Government's promises to Indian country to build and maintain irrigation projects needs to be fulfilled. This bill is a start in the right direction.
Download or read book Irrigation Projects in Indian Country written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BIA Management and Operation of Indian Irrigation Projects written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navajo Indian Irrigation Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navajo Indian Irrigation Project written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the current status of indian irrigation projects administered by the bureau of indian affairs written by National Irrigation Committee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Era for Irrigation written by Committee on the Future of Irrigation in the Face of Competing Demands and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-11-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigated agriculture has played a critical role in the economic and social development of the United States--but it is also at the root of increasing controversy. How can irrigation best make the transition into an era of increasing water scarcity? In A New Era for Irrigation, experts draw important conclusions about whether irrigation can continue to be the nation's most significant water user, what role the federal government should play, and what the irrigation industry must do to adapt to the conditions of the future. A New Era for Irrigation provides data, examples, and insightful commentary on issues such as Growing competition for water resources. Developments in technology and science. The role of federal subsidies for crops and water. Uncertainties related to American Indian water rights issues. Concern about environmental problems. And more. The committee identifies broad forces of change and reports on how public and private institutions, scientists and technology experts, and individual irrigators have responded. The report includes detailed case studies from the Great Plains, the Pacific Northwest, California, and Florida, in both the agricultural and turfgrass sectors. The cultural transformation brought about by irrigation may be as profound as the transformation of the landscape. The committee examines major facets of this cultural perspective and explores its place in the future. A New Era for Irrigation explains how irrigation emerged in the nineteenth century, how it met the nation's goals in the twentieth century, and what role it might play in the twenty-first century. It will be important to growers, policymakers, regulators, environmentalists, water and soil scientists, water rights claimants, and interested individuals.
Download or read book Navajo Indian Irrigation Project written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 203, to authorize Interior Dept to include additional lands in the Navajo Indian irrigation project, to increase the project's cost ceiling, and to reimburse persons whose grazing permits, licenses or leases on lands were taken by the project.
Download or read book Indian Irrigation Projects written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) manages 16 irrigation projects on Indian reservations in the western United States. These projects, which were generally constructed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, include water storage facilities and delivery structures for agricultural purposes. Serious concerns have arisen about their maintenance and management. GAO was asked to examine (1) BIA's estimated deferred maintenance cost for its 16 irrigation projects, (2) what shortcomings, if any, exist in BIA's current management of its irrigation projects, and (3) any issues that need to be addressed to determine the long-term direction of BIA's irrigation program.
Download or read book Decolonizing Waterscapes in Indian Country written by Melanie Ann Stansbury and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project NRLP of India Promoting irrigation demand management in India potentials problems and prospects written by International Water Management Institute and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2008 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Download or read book Photographs Written Historical and Descriptive Data written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Command of the Waters written by Daniel McCool and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about legal questions surrounding Indian water rights; this book now places them in the political framework that also includes water development. McCool analyzes the two conflicting doctrines relating to water use—one based on federal case law governing the rights of Indians on reservations, the other sanctioned by legislation and applied to non-Indians—based on the "iron triangles" of bureaucrats, legislators, and interest groups that dominate policy issues. He examines the way federal and BIA water development programs have reacted to conflict, competition, and opportunity from the turn of the century to the 1980s and updates the situation in an introduction written for this edition.
