Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not it is ever built to dam water, the proposed 675-ft. Federal power and irrigation dam in the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River has already backed up an enormous supply of attention, irrigated the U. S. with rushing streams of propaganda and oratory, generated powerful currents of controversy. The purposes for which the actual dam is proposed...
...furnish electricity to the seven Colorado Basin States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming...
...protect from floods the inhabitants of California's Imperial Valley, which is below the Colorado's bed-level...
...facts, that only 2½% of the Colorado basin lies in California; that practically no California water drains into the river; whereas about 42% of the basin is in Arizona, whose streams furnish 28% of the river's flow at Boulder Canyon. Reflecting these facts in the provisions of the bill in such a manner as to satisfy Arizona has to date proved impossible...
...seven States in the Colorado Basin agree that it would be advantageous to obtain Federal development and control of their common natural resource. But California, a boom state, presses for immediate action. And Arizona, slow-growing, temporizes to protect its future...