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Artificial islands of the United States (9 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Land reclamation in the United States" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Many American reclamation districts were established prior to 1900 when local land owners first started working to put new land into agricultural production. Much of the lands "reclaimed" by 19th century reclamation districts were natural wetlands. Since wetlands are subject to flooding, these lands often were adjacent to sources of water ...
Land reclamation in the United States (1 C, 9 P) A. Artificial islands (6 C, 22 P) D. Desert greening (2 C, 22 P) P. ... Saemangeum (3 P) Pages in category "Land ...
Within the United States Department of the Interior, it oversees water resource management, specifically the oversight and/or operation of numerous diversion, delivery, and storage projects it built throughout the western United States for irrigation, flood control, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.
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The Minidoka Project is a series of public works by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to control the flow of the Snake River in Wyoming and Idaho, supplying irrigation water to farmlands in Idaho. One of the oldest Bureau of Reclamation projects in the United States, the project involves a series of dams and canals intended to store, regulate and ...
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 ...