Question

Evaluate the following statement: The National Reclamation Act of 1902 was the most important water policy implemented in New Mexico. Write a response telling why you either agree or disagree with the statement. Give at least two reasons to support your response.

Answer 1

In his clearly titled Water and American Government Donald J. Pisani continues his planned multivolume analysis of water law, water policy, and American governmental institutions.[1]
This second volume offers a narrative history of the Reclamation Service from its creation by the Reclamation Act of 1902 through its monumental, crowning achievement in the first third of the twentieth century, Boulder Dam on the Colorado River.