"Glen Canyon Dam" by United States. Bureau of Reclamation is a government publication focusing on the immense Glen Canyon Dam project and its vast influence. The book offers technical specifications, design considerations, and construction challenges encountered during the dam's creation. It highlights the dam's primary purposes: regulating water distribution in the arid Colorado River Basin, generating hydroelectric power, and fostering economic growth in the region. It thoroughly examines how the dam addresses critical water management issues and the substantial infrastructure developed to support this monumental engineering achievement.
Glen Canyon Dam
By United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Discover a remarkable example of engineering and construction as it explores how a monumental dam transformed a river and reshaped a region.
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About the AuthorThe Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation. It is currently the U.S.'s largest wholesaler of water, bringing water to more than 31 million people, and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland, which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. The Bureau is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the western U.S.
The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation. It is currently the U.S.'s largest wholesaler of water, bringing water to more than 31 million people, and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland, which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. The Bureau is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the western U.S.
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