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    I was pleasantly surprised on how much I enjoyed visiting the Centennial Village historical site in Greeley. I happened to visit this museum on the perfect day because there were children from different schools dressed up and “living” how the people in Northern Colorado lived more than 100 years ago. With the children all dressed up like people used to dress, and doing the chores that they used to take on really made it the feel like I was back in time. I got to experience dozens of historical sites

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    Introduction [Attention Getter ] When I first came to Las Vegas in the summer of 2003, we visited the Lake Mead very often and knowing now of how much lower the water has gotten over the years has been quite shocking to me. [Audience Justification / Relevance] Since I been living in Las Vegas for about 15 years now, I’ve noticed how much the drought has affected us here. [Thesis Statement] Lake Mead has suffered a drought for more than 15 years, causing Nevada residents to cut back on water usage

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    constructed and operated by the state and covers 1,290 acres with 15 miles of shoreline for recreation, making Spruce Run the third largest reservoir in the state. The 11 billion gallon on-stream water storage reservoir includes a 6,000 foot long earthen dam and two earthen dikes, making it an integral

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    control over utilities. In response, the federal government created the Bureau of Reclamation, designed to bring water to the deserts and harness aqueous power to generate electricity. One of the most successful endeavors in this objective was the Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel and a public works success story. Behind that famous icon is a lesser-known one: John L. Savage, civil engineer. His modesty and reserve belied a sharp intellect and ambition, traits that carried him to the top of his field

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    Herbert Hoover and His Role in The Great Depression            With the continually worsening conditions, and the stock market crash on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the United States was thrown into the biggest economical disaster of our history. Everyone, excluding the rich upper class, became poor and most unemployed. The majority of the American populace found themselves living in ‘shantytowns’ or ‘Hoovervilles’ as they later became to be

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    Ilson Dam Case Study

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    ilson Dam- located in my hometown of Florence, Alabama- is a hydroelectric power-generating dam within the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system. It was built within the time frame of 1918 to 1924, and its construction was initiated by the events of World War I. Nitrate was a commodity in high demand for its use in explosives, and as the government began to fear a decreasing supply of the substance, the National Defense Act of 1916 was passed which authorized the construction of new nitrate plants

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    Essay about History of the Colorado River

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    of the river is more of a blue-green though, due to the creation of the Glen Canyon Dam in 1963. The silt and sediments that gave the river its reddish-brown color are now trapped behind the dam at the bottom of Lake Powell. Before the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam, the Colorado river could carry around 500,000 tons of silt and sediment per day through the Grand Canyon. The peak flow rate before the dam was normally around 85,000 cfs (abbreviation for "cubic feet per second" which is used

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    Gorges Dam

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    building of the dam first proposed in 1919 and by whom? The dam was first proposed by Sun-Yat San, the father of modern China, in order to protect river communities from floods and also contribute for economic development plan for China. 2.Why have archaeologists and historians criticized the building of the Three Gorges Dam? Archeologist and historians criticize the building of the Three Gorges Dam because it is socially and environmentally destructive. This is because when the dam is finished

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    Energy efficiency is a key step in reducing our impact on global climate change and creating a sustainable energy future. Electricity production is the number one source of greenhouse gases and the leading cause of industrial air pollution in the United States. Most of our electricity comes from coal, nuclear, and other non-renewable power plants. Producing energy from these types of sources takes a severe toll on the environment by polluting the air, land, and water supply. In order to stop polluting

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    Yuma Project

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    was the most difficult legislative aspect.Due many people depended on the water of this river, California had many duel system of water rights and the best solution to all this was to put all groups in agreement, after this they decided to build the Hoover Dam.During the construction of the Yuma Siphon, there was also some problems present. One of them was to find a way to

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