Summary: How Irrigation Changed Yuma

The Yuma we have today is all because of the irrigation system and the hard work of people. Yuma Project and the irrigation had many struggles they had to overcome and go through to accomplish the Yuma they have today. The irrigation was a big help to Yuma and Arizona to have a better growth for the economy and the country. The irrigation system was the new begin to the people and Yuma Arizona. Even though they knew it was going to be tough to make this happen and they didn’t know what problems were going there way when building the irrigation system.
Question 1 : Describe in details how irrigation changed Yuma/ Southern Arizona.
Irrigation changed Yuma/ Southern Arizona in both a positive and negative way. A positive way that irrigation
Most of them had to do with the problems that irrigation brought or the water system. Overall the irrigation system did great help to make Yuma growth extend over the years. The “Summary Statistics for Yuma Project Development” have the development of yuma from 1912 and 1989. This development happen with the help of the irrigation system by bring people into Yuma Arizona which demand to make more house and jobs to the people. One big impact that happen in Yuma was when Yuma got flooded. It happen in 1916 when this brought trouble to the irrigation system because the levees broke which led to the town being flooded in a instance, this has happen before but this this time is when the irrigation was place. Even so Yuma was to overcome this “ And each time, the people of Yuma rebuilt, promising to build bigger and better and a little smarter.” this shows that Yuma still trusts the irrigation system after the flooding. Yuma learned from this to be able to improve their town by making such they rebuilt it again and no mistake were made for the levees to break again. Even so today the irrigation system is still working because “...of the foresight and hard labor of those who designed and constructed it, said Jennifer McCloskey,...” making it reliable even so today has it was a big task that Yuma had to overcome to irrigation to happen even if they got help from the government. When coming to land of crops and the water it needed and the water that the people needed became a problem too. When irrigation came it was there give the water needed to the people in Yuma or give the water to grow crops in Yuma to improve the growth of Yuma and its economy. To this problem there was a lot of problem with dealing with the water right’s “The most difficult legislative aspect concerned the equitable division of the Colorado waters.” many were not getting there