Australia isnÕt the only country which has pumped water onto land so that crops would grown and people would be fed. Irrigation came to the arid West in the USA in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. This is a study of irrigation in southern IdahoÕs Snake River valley and describes how millions of acres were brought under cultivation. The new landscape met with difficulties and other natural forces - conditions that engineers and farmers did not control in the way they expected. Lessons for irrigation on the home front.

ISBN: 9780295980133
Title: Irrigated Eden the Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West
Author: FIEGE MARK
Format: Paperback
RRP: $39.95
Price: $19.95