| Category | Water |
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| Keywords | policy/regulation, history |
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| Title | Engineers and Irrigation: Report of the Board of Commissioners on the Irrigation of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys of the State of California |
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| Comments | (annotated, with an introduction by W. T. Jackson, R. F. Herbert and, S. R. Wee) This book is a reprint of an 1873 report on the irrigation potential of the Central Valley. The report contains a detailed hydrological history of the valley and a description of irrigation techniques. The contemporary volume contains an introduction and annotation designed to interpret the original text for a contemporary reader and describes the influence of business interests on the creation of the original report. |
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| Author(s) | US Army Corp of Engineers |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Publisher | Office of History |
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