Settlement, Growth, and Water Security for Southwest Cities - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 447

FIGURE 26.4
Roosevelt Dam under construction on the Salt River. (Courtesy of the Salt River Project.)
FIGURE 26.5
Backside of the Hoover Dam. (Courtesy of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.)
location to build this reclamation project. In 1906, the United States signed a treaty with
Mexico for the equitable distribution of Rio Grande water through the delivery of water to
the Acequia madre at Juarez of 60,000 ac ft a year. As with the Roosevelt Dam project, a water
users group was formed to reimburse the federal government with the dam construction
costs over time. The dam was complete in 1916 for a cost of $5.2 million. A hydroelectric
plant was added later in 1937 to provide electric power to the region (Figure 26.6).