Download or read book Sale and Transmission of Power Bureau of Reclamation Central Valley Project California written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sale and Transmission of Power Bureau of Reclamation Central Valley Project Cal 86 2 1960 written by United States. Congress. House. Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Summary Report of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior and Statistical Appendix written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Summary Report of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30 and Statistical Appendix written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Concrete Revolution written by Christopher Sneddon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams, we know far less about their political origins and ramifications. In Concrete Revolution, Christopher Sneddon offers a corrective: a compelling historical account of the US Bureau of Reclamation’s contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social and environmental adversity perpetuated by the US government in its pursuit of economic growth and geopolitical power. Founded in 1902, the Bureau became enmeshed in the US State Department’s push for geopolitical power following World War II, a response to the Soviet Union’s increasing global sway. By offering technical and water resource management advice to the world’s underdeveloped regions, the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic assistance and the United States with investment opportunities, but also forge alliances and shore up a country’s global standing in the face of burgeoning communist influence. Drawing on a number of international case studies—from the Bureau’s early forays into overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities Office in 1950 to the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia—Concrete Revolution offers insights into this historic damming boom, with vital implications for the present. If, Sneddon argues, we can understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in current debates about large dams and river basin planning.

Download or read book Bureau of Reclamation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Accelerated Reclamation Construction Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hoover Dam written by Barbara Vilander and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoover Dam was constructed during one of the most depressed economic climates in American history, in a remote desert canyon where temperatures ranged from single to triple digits. In order to visually document the project, the Bureau of Reclamation assigned employee Ben Glaha to photograph all aspects of the dam's construction. Glaha's photographs were used in press releases, periodicals, books, pamphlets, and slide shows to demonstrate that the dam was structurally sound and that government funds were being used wisely. Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha is the first detailed examination of Glaha's images of the project, some of which have never before been published. Glaha photographed every aspect of the construction process—from details of how the dam was assembled to the overall progress as the dam rose from the bottom of the dry riverbed. Glaha not only provided the Bureau with the photographs it required, he also employed his own artistic abilities to produce images of the dam that were exhibited in museums and galleries as works of art. Because Glaha was able to create a selection of Hoover Dam photographs worthy of exhibition, he was unique among government documentary photographers. Art historian Barbara Vilander's text places Glaha's efforts within the historical context of western landscape exploration and development and reveals how his particular qualifications led to his selection as the project photographer. Vilander then examines the many publications and venues in which the Bureau used Glaha's photographs to create support for the project. She also discusses how Glaha was recognized in his own era as an influential artist and teacher, and compares his work with that of other contemporary landscape photographers addressing western water management. Glaha's Hoover Dam images were widely published, although in accordance with Bureau policy he was not usually given personal credit and therefore his name remains largely unknown. Vilander's book corrects that oversight by giving Glaha the technical and artistic credit he is due within the context of one of the most ambitious projects in American history.

Download or read book Reclamation Era written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Big Dams of the New Deal Era written by David P. Billington and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public needs, and a river’s natural features intertwined to create distinctive dams within each region. In particular, the authors describe how two federal agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, became key players in the creation of these important public works. By illuminating the mathematical analysis that supported large-scale dam construction, the authors also describe how and why engineers in the 1930s most often opted for massive gravity dams, whose design required enormous quantities of concrete or earth-rock fill for stability. Richly illustrated, Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape—both politically and physically—and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly.

Download or read book Harvest of Plenty written by Christine Pfaff and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 2886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Message of the President of the United States Transmitting the Budget for the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indian Reserved Water Rights written by John Shurts and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 1908 decision for Winters v. United States, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that the United States and the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Indians had reserved rights to water in the Milk River through an 1888 treaty which created the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. Since 1908 the Winters decision, or Indian reserved water rights doctrine, has played an important and controversial role in the West. Indian Reserved Water Rights is the first book-length historical study of the Winters case and the early use of the reserved water doctrine. In the book, John Shurts explains how the litigation and its outcome fit well within the existing legal context and into ongoing efforts at water development in the Milk River Valley. He also examines the life of the Winters Doctrine during its earliest years, primarily through a study of water-rights litigation on the Uintah Reservation in Utah.

Download or read book Photographs Written Historical and Descriptive Data written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interior Department Appropriations for 1953 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bureau of Reclamation written by Brit Allan Storey and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: