IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WATER POLICY

1. Irrigation economics comes of age 2. A brief history of irrigation 2.1 The antiquity of irrigation 2.2 Irrigation turns Westward 2.3 Early irrigation in the Americas 2.4 Modern irrigation in the United States 3. Irrigation in public land policy 3.1 The desert land act 3.2 The Care act 3.3 Reclamation act of 1902 3.4 Irrigation of Indian lands 3.5 The Warren act 3.6 The reclamation extension act 3.7 The fact finders' commission 3.8 From public lands to private lands 4. Water rights and their administration 4.1 Available supplies of water 4.2 The doctrine of Riparian rights 4.3 The Doctrine of appropriation 4.4 The doctrine of relation back 4.5 Variations in Western water law 4.6 State regulation of water rights 4.7 Defining of water rights 4.8 Loss of water rights 4.9 Transfer of water rights 4.10 Duty of water 4.11 Rights to return flow 4.12 Rights to ground water 4.13 Doctrine of correlative rights 4.14 Rights to atmospheric moisture 4.15 Interstate water compacts 4.16 International water agreements 5. Land problems and regulations 5.1 Excess-land regulations 5.2 Attacks on acreage limitation 5.3 Land speculation 5.4 Anti-speculation laws 5.5 The lag in land utilization 5.6 Land classification 5.7 Land values under irrigation 5.8 Ownership and tenure 6. Project organization and operation 6.1 Co-operative irrigation companies 6.2 Commercial irrigation companies 6.3 Irrigation districts 6.4.State irrigation district acts 6.5 Federal irrigation district act 6.6 Formation of irrigation districts 6.7 Operation of irrigation projects 6.8 Types of organizations compared 7. Financing of irrigation development 7.1 The use of private capital 7.2 The revolving fund 7.3 Financial relief to water users 7.4 Joint liability 7.5 Subsidy in irrigation development 7.6 Conservancy districts 7.7 Interest on irrigation obligations 7.8 Repayment experience 7.9 Variable repayment 8. The 7. Financing of irrigation development 7.1 The use of private capital 7.2 The revolving fund 7.3 Financial relief to water users 7.4 Joint liability 7.5 Subsidy in irrigation development 7.6 Conservancy districts 7.7 Interest on irrigation obligations 7.8 Repayment experience 7.9 Variable repayment 8. The development of irrigated farms 8.1 defining the Family farm 8.2 the pioneer settler 8.3 Development before settlement 8.4 The Durham - Delhi experience 8.5 Federal predevelopment experience 8.6 How much predevelopment? 8.7 Demonstration farms 8.8 Adequate and adapted credit 8.9 Subdividing projects into farm units 8.10 Providing technical assistance 8.11 Water as a factor of production 8.12 Management of water 8.13 Conservation of irrigated land 9. Integrated use of irrigated land 9.1 John Wesley Powell, prophet 9.2 Instability of semiarid agriculture 9.3 Irrigation and stability 9.4 Methods of integration 9.5 Limitations of integration 9.6 The drought of the thirties 9.7 The water conservation 9.8 The WCU program and integrated land use 9.9 Irrigation from small watersheds 9.10 State programs for small water projects 10. River basin development 10.1 The concept of multiple use 10.2 Straight lines and curves 10.3 A river basin defined 10.4 Water and land 10.5 The importance of headwaters 10.6 Agricultural watersheds 10.7 The siltation problem 10.8 The need for co-ordinated action 10.9 Alternatives in regional administration 10.10 River basin accounting 11. The public interest in water resources 11.1 what is the public interest? 11.2 The public vs. the private 11.3 The public vs. the State 11.4 The public vs. the public 11.5 Long -run vs. short -run public interest 11.6 Institutional factors and the public interest 11.7 Public interest and public policy 12. Evaluation of water resource development 12.1 Projects and programs 12.2 Market and extra-market values 12.3 The benefits -costs analysis 12.4 Procedures in benefits -costs analysis 12.5 Complications in benefits-costs analysis 12.6 The allocation of joint costs 12.7 Why public expenditures for resource development? 12.8 Resource development in a dynamic economy 12.9 Functions of economic evaluation 13. Economic feasibility of irrigation 13.1 Crop adaptability 13.2 Sizes and types of farms 13.3 The budget analysis 13.4 The value of water 13.5 Local non-farm benefits 13.6 Benefits beyond the project area 14. Irrigation in humid areas 14.1 Climatic characteristics of humid areas 14.2 Trends in humid-area irrigation 14.3 Technology in humid-area irrigation 14.4 Supplemental irrigation as insurance 14.5 The need for technical assistance 14.6 The role of public agencies 14.7 The benefits of humid-area irrigation 14.8 The conflict for water 15. Irrigation development in relation to population trends and food requirements 15.1 National population growth 15.2 Western population growth 15.3 Higher levels of nutrition 15.4 Food and feed reserves 16. Irrigation development in relation to natural and man-made resources 16.1 Rehabilitation of man-abused lands 16.2 Alternatives in New Land reclamation 16.3 Regional adjustments in agriculture 16.4 Technology in agricultural production 17. Irrigation development in relation to long term national and foreign policy 17.1 Irrigation and farming opportunities 17.2 Irrigation in the Western economy 17.3 Industrial development of the west 17.4 Irrigation and the business cycle 17.5 Irrigation's relation to national security 17.6 United States foreign trade policies 18. Toward a sound irrigation policy 18.1 Determinants for irrigation policy 18.2 Planning for irrigation development 18.3 Components of a sound irrigation policy

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