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THE hydrological department of the United States Geological Survey finds nowhere, perhaps, so important and fruitful a field of operations as in the great tract of country which lies west of the icoth meridian of west longitude. The difficulties attending the agricultural development of regions in which the rainfall is so scanty as to be almost negligible are sufficiently obvious, but the lack of adequate supplies of water is no less felt for mining and industrial purposes, to say nothing of ordinary domestic requirements. Hence arises the necessity for a close and searching investigation into all such sources as are actually available, and the conservation of supplies from streams and wells, so that they may be utilised to the best advantage, with the reduction of waste and loss to a minimum.
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C., B. Artificial Irrigation in the Western States of North America 1 . Nature 97, 17–18 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097017b0
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