Yuma's Water Issues

Yuma, Arizona had a lot of water issues and it was causing the fresh plants in the fields to not grow the way they were suppose to but however, they also could not put those veggies and fruits in the markets because they were no good. Although, the developers of Yuma also had to pay a lot of money for those plants for them to be thrown away but they soon started a project for the water issues and damages. Yuma would get flooded when it would rain and also the Colorado River was giving more water than it was suppose to and was causing the buildings and houses to be damaged.

When they started to do irrigation they had a private ditch and that one did not work out very well. It was located in the Yuma Valley. The ditch did not work out because
However, there were people who were also abusing the water usage wasting the water for no good. Also, the people who worked in agriculture got payed very little and a lot of people were getting employment. They would have to sometimes work overtime because of the dams overflowing and having to repair them. The Bureau of Reclamation built a levee on the California side on the dam that was topped by a rail-line. Beforehand, they had also gained the cooperation of the Southern Pacific railroad who agreed to deliver cement directly at the dam site. There was a lot of flooding in Yuma and also the flooding caused a lot of damages in the the town. The floods would cause to drop the nutrients on the palin before it recedes and the developers would have a lot of problems to regrow them because then it would cost more money and they would have to get other things too, to create the dams and canals. The flood would wipe out Yuma and leave it a big mess. The floods were messing up the Yuma project. The earthquake messed up Yuma. The crops used to be bad and the plants did not get a lot of water or not the same amount of water and that was making the fruits and vegetables get bad for just dry out. They had just finished the Imperial dam and that made things with water much better than it was before, that was part of the Yuma project. The Laguna dam was the first dam on the Colorado River. The idea of that was to raise the water higher so the gravity can take over with it so it would not overflow. We used 2.27 of direct effect 0.18 of indirect effect and 0.36 induced effect of water in 2014 and that was all on mostly cropping and agriculture. Yuma had a total of 20,744 people with employment in agriculture and that was affecting the economy. The Colorado River irrigated in the Yuma