Yima Arizona Case Study

Intro: Arizona has had a huge amount of change throughout the years especially with agriculture. One thing that stands out would be the evolution of irrigation, especially in Yuma arizona. Yuma arizona has gone from having little to no adequate irrigation to being one of the most successful irrigated farm lands in the country. With having the colorado at Yuma’s disposal, it wouldn’t be an injustice to utilize the river for irrigation. It also helps having tremendously fertile land so that we can produce superb vegetation.
Question1: describe in detail how irrigation changed Yuma/southern arizona.
Irrigation has been shaped in Yuma/southern Arizona in many ways due to many reasons. It's been long known that Yuma has exemplary Farming land, but we needed a way to utilize and profit from it. Although at the start we had a difficult time irrigating the farmland. “Several private …show more content…
As the USA expanded and populated so did Yuma. Yuma had a supply and demand as well, it wasn’t just a small town for people to ignore. People had to pass through to easily get to california in search for gold and that meant business and the locals had to supply the demand for food for the businesses that served the settlers that passed through in which case the irrigation had to be improved. “While most people would come across the country and then stop and settle, of the tens of the thousands of people who potentially passed through Yuma to go to California to find gold”. Yuma had to provide a lot for the new prospectors, this was costly between having to keep the irrigation clean to making sure that there was even an irrigation to keep clean. Nonetheless the locals had a lot of labor on their plate. “the Colorado River usually ran high in the late spring and early summer (...) Following these high water periods, the flow was often too low for diversion. These irregularities presented many difficulties for irrigators along the lower river in the