Irrigation in the United States, Vol. 4: Extent and Methods, Area of Reclamation, the Statistics Thereof, Artesian Wells, Laws of States and Territories, Water Supply, Rates and Distribution; With Brief Sketch of Foreign Systems, Etc;, Etc
Irrigation in the United States, Vol. 4: Extent and Methods, Area of Reclamation, the Statistics Thereof, Artesian Wells, Laws of States and Territories, Water Supply, Rates and Distribution; With Brief Sketch of Foreign Systems, Etc;, Etc
Excerpt from Irrigation in the United States, Vol. 4: Extent and Methods, Area of Reclamation, the Statistics Thereof, Artesian Wells, Laws of States and Territories, Water Supply, Rates and Distribution; With Brief Sketch of Foreign Systems, Etc;, Etc Ah inquiry into the progress and present condition of irrigation in 'this country necessarily involves a consideration of the extent and char acter of the area Within which the annual rain-fall is not sufficient for the industrial uses of the people. Such an inquiry, broadly ...
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Excerpt from Irrigation in the United States, Vol. 4: Extent and Methods, Area of Reclamation, the Statistics Thereof, Artesian Wells, Laws of States and Territories, Water Supply, Rates and Distribution; With Brief Sketch of Foreign Systems, Etc;, Etc Ah inquiry into the progress and present condition of irrigation in 'this country necessarily involves a consideration of the extent and char acter of the area Within which the annual rain-fall is not sufficient for the industrial uses of the people. Such an inquiry, broadly defined, ih volves the extent of the fall of rains or snow within the area indicated; also the evidence obtained as to increase or decrease of precipitation resulting from agricultural settlement or of pastoral occupation, the increase of humidity of earth or air, the destruction of the timber mainly by its use for settlement purposes, the effect of the destz notion of the native grasses and the substitution of cultivated varieties; also the sources of water supply, their character, uses, conservation, the means, natural and artificial, employed for their distribution, and what has been and is being accomplished in the way of artificial methods of water distribution and economy, and the laws and customs pertainingr thereto. More than any of these, however, it relates itself fundamentally to the largest questions of physical geography. The topographical configura tion involves, indeed it controls, the Whole matter of aridity, because it determines all climatic considerations. The probability of reclama tion by means of irrigation is primarily by the configuration of a given hydrographic area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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