United States Bureau of Reclamation

right The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and 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. Currently the USBR is the largest wholesaler of water in the country, 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 USBR is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the western United States.

On June 17, 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act, Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the U.S. Reclamation Service within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western state with federal lands—revenue from sale of federal lands was the initial source of the program's funding. Because Texas had no federal lands, it did not become a Reclamation state until 1906, when Congress passed a law including it in the provisions of the Reclamation Act. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Published 1909
    [S.l. : s.n., 1909?]
    29 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., maps (1 folded) ; 22 x 9 cm.
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    Published 1907
    Washington, D.C. : The Service, 1907-1923.
    v. : maps, plans ; 27 cm.
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    Published 1908
    Washington, D.C. : The Service, 1908.
    4 v. ; 26 cm.
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    by Gault, Homer J.
    Published 1923
    Denver : U.S. Reclamation Service, 1923.
    72 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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    Published 1908
    Washington, D.C. : U.S. Reclamation Service, [1908-1924]
    15 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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    by Sullivan, Vernon L.
    Published 1924
    Albuquerque, N.M. : Valliant Printing Co., 1924.
    31 p. ; 23 cm.
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