Talk:Irrigation

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I've removed the section on further reading

I've removed the section on further reading as I think none of these outdated documents added much value here and we also don't need a list of journals:

Journals

Irrigation Science, ISSN 1432-1319 (electronic) 0342-7188 (paper), Springer
Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ISSN 0733-9437, ASCE Publications
Irrigation and Drainage, ISSN 1531-0361, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Agricultural Water Management, ISSN 0378-3774, Elsevier.

EMsmile (talk) 14:56, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Tech Writing for Agriculture

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 January 2023 and 19 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Leonardo Lomeli, Jhjaime (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by JCT02 (talk) 22:53, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chronological/factual issues with section

Under the American West[1] history section, the following section needs clarification:

While the National Reclamation Act was the most successful piece of federal irrigation legislation, the implementation of the act did not go as planned. The Reclamation Service chose to push most of the Act's money toward construction rather than settlement, so the Service overwhelmingly prioritized building large dams like the Hoover Dam. Over the 20th century Congress and state governments grew more frustrated with the Reclamation Service and the irrigation schemes. Frederick Newell, head of the Reclamation Service, proving uncompromising and difficult to work with, falling crop prices, resistance to delay debt payments, and refusal to begin new projects until the completion of old ones all contributed. The Reclamation Extension Act of 1914, transferring a significant amount of irrigation decision-making power regarding irrigation projects from the Reclamation Service to Congress, was in many ways a result of an increasing political unpopularity of the Reclamation Service.

1. The Hoover Dam was approved in 1928 (under control by the Department of the Interior after powers transferred from the USGS & by then renamed Bureau of Reclamation^[1]), yet the section goes on to then discuss changes that happened to Reclamation Service in 1914.

2. The following sentence:

Frederick Newell, head of the Reclamation Service, proving uncompromising and difficult to work with, falling crop prices, resistance to delay debt payments, and refusal to begin new projects until the completion of old ones all contributed.

Does not provide a source for the claim and is worded poorly.

3. The section does not mention the most widely reported issues in the early history of the Reclamation Service, notably:

"...many projects encountered problems: lands/soils included in projects were unsuitable for irrigation; land speculation sometimes resulted in poor settlement patterns; proposed repayment schedules could not be met by irrigators who had high land preparation and facilities construction costs; settlers were inexperienced in irrigation farming; waterlogging of irrigable lands required expensive drainage projects; and projects were built in areas which could only grow low-value crops."^[2]

4. I was not able to find an accessible copy of the works cited (Water and American Government - Donald J. Pisani[2]) so I'm unable to verify the claims made. I was also unable to verify the claims in this article elsewhere on the web.

Lheureuxe (talk) 18:26, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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7:30pm 20394 penhollow ln 97702 usa earth milky wat 66.220.104.33 (talk) 02:29, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.usbr.gov/history/borhist.html#:~:text=From%201902%20to,versus%20private%20power.

[2] ttps://www.usbr.gov/history/borhist.html#:~:text=In%20the%20early,low%2Dvalue%20crops.

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I've removed the section on further reading

Further reading

Journals

Wiki Education assignment: Tech Writing for Agriculture

Chronological/factual issues with section

Messy