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    Yuma's Water Issues

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    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.

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    The Hoover Ddam was constructed in the 1930s. Iit’s so long that its spans the Colorado River in Black Canyon between Arizona and Nevada. its like 30 miles southeast of La Vegas Nevada.The hoover dam wasbeen plannedplanded to be builtd for years to stop floods from the river.The Hhoover Ddam is one of America’s greatest civil engineering marvels. John L. Savage the engineer who supervised the design of the Hhoover Ddam and many other dams in the Uunited Sstates.The Hhoover Ddam It was originally

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    the war he went to explore the rapids in Colorado (22). John had said‚“When we have run the rapids‚ nothing is more exhilarating.... It must be something like battle at the point of victory‚ or something much more agreeable… a smooth calm stream‚ running only at the rate of five or six miles per hour‚ is a horror we all detest now.... Danger is our life” (Waldman 20). Another reason how he is famous is after he explored there‚ was rapid growth in Colorado (Souza 48). Most people were scared of the

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    History of Caura River

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    Caura area was once an Arawak settlement and it lay in the valley along the Tacarigua river approximately five miles north of the eastern main road. When the British captured Trinidad in 1797‚ nineteen lots were marked along the river area. This represented a strip that began from the Caura Valley entrance and lead right up to the head waters of Tacarigua River. This distance covered became known as Caura River. The location and climate in the mountain area lead to the inhabitation of settlers who

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    Hoover Dam

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    The Hoover Dam Hoover Dam‚ also known as Boulder Dam‚ is a concrete dam built in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. It was built on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada and it also crosses the border between two time zones‚ the Pacific Time Zone and the Mountain Time Zone. When it was completed in 1935‚ it was the world ’s largest electric power producing facility and the world ’s largest concrete structure. The dam is located about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas. It is named

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    The River Between Analysis

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    separation in the book The River Between. Are there religions that are better than any other? Should you stick to your beliefs or be a rebel? Is it worth to go against the flow? Does anyone have obligations towards his religion? This is some of the questions that Ngūgĩ wa Thiong’o deals with. Ngūgĩ wa Thiong’o is a social activist and a Kenyan writer who was born in 1938. He was educated in Kenya‚ Uganda and Britain. In 1965‚ Ngūgĩ published his second work titled The River Between. Besides having

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    The once untamed Colorado River was set to be cultivated in 1931 by the Bureau of Reclamation. It was to be tamed by the Hoover Dam‚ the biggest man made thing in the whole world. The place of this great achievement was in between two hulking masses of sedimentary rock at Black Canyon‚ Nevada. The dam intentionally had its purposes‚ for example its production would supply jobs in the time of the Great Depression. As well as‚ curb the rapid floods that frequently deluded Southern California(?). Then

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    River Energy Essay

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    the factors that influence how much a work a river can do (25) The work that a river does is erosion‚ transportation and deposition. The amount of work a river can do is dependent on the energy it has and this energy is determined by many factors. The study of water flow in a river channel is known as hydraulics. Hydraulic geometry is the study of the relationships that exist within river channels that ultimately determine how much work the river will be able to carry out. Width‚ depth‚ velocity

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    Hoover Dam

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    “’Ten years ago the place where we are gathered was an unpeopled‚ forbidding desert. In the bottom of a gloomy canyon‚ whose precipitous walls rose to a height of more than a thousand feet‚ flowed a turbulent‚ dangerous river. The mountains on either side of the canyon were difficult to access with neither road nor trail‚ and their rocks were protected by neither trees nor grass from the blazing heat of the sun. The site of Boulder City was a cactus-covered waste. The transformation wrought here

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    the The Grand Canyon. Today‚ the Grand Canyon is consider one of most fascinating natural wonders of the world due to its natural features and rock deposition that date back to millions of years ago. The Grand Canyon is a canyon divided by the Colorado River flowing at its bottom and its walls are decorated by different color layers of rock. It is due to this rock deposition and layering that the canyon has become a spot for geologist to study and of great tourism. As you can see in the image below

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