Irrigation in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico: A Study and AnnotatedBibliography of the Development of Irrigation Systems

摘要

The purpose of this report is to describe the development of irrigation systemsin the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico from their origins until the mid 1990s. The study discusses prehistoric Puebloan irrigation, the impact of Hispanic settlement and of the rise of irrigation agriculture in the northern Rio Grande Valley during the seventeenth century, the interconnection of irrigation and land grant communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and finally the origins and development of federal irrigation projects in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.