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... CANAL COLORADO R ARIZONA IMPERIAL DAM YUMA DESALTING PLANT ( UNDER CONSTRUCTION ) EL CENTRO LAGUNA DAM GILAR YUMA ALL - AMERICAN CANAL MORELOS DAM MEXICO WELLTON MOHAW BRINE DRAIN BYPASS DRAIN Figure 3. The All - American Canal SOURCE ...
... CANAL COLORADO R ARIZONA IMPERIAL DAM YUMA DESALTING PLANT ( UNDER CONSTRUCTION ) EL CENTRO LAGUNA DAM GILAR YUMA ALL - AMERICAN CANAL MORELOS DAM MEXICO WELLTON MOHAW BRINE DRAIN BYPASS DRAIN Figure 3. The All - American Canal SOURCE ...
Page 158
... canal stretching mainly uphill from Northeast Texas to the High Plains , with a branch running to New Mexico and another to the trans - Pecos area . Much of the 17.3 million acre - feet of water that would run through those canals ...
... canal stretching mainly uphill from Northeast Texas to the High Plains , with a branch running to New Mexico and another to the trans - Pecos area . Much of the 17.3 million acre - feet of water that would run through those canals ...
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... canal alone . He postu- lates that similar large - scale water projects were undertaken around Larsa itself , and in the archives , he found a reference , dating from 1881 B.C. , to a major project involving " the building of a wall ...
... canal alone . He postu- lates that similar large - scale water projects were undertaken around Larsa itself , and in the archives , he found a reference , dating from 1881 B.C. , to a major project involving " the building of a wall ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Problems of Resettlement | 17 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
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