History Of Contribution And Sacrifices For Yuma

Histories Contribution and Sacrifices for Yuma
In the course of history to get Yuma where it is today a various of events occurred. Even though the Yuma Project impacted the city both negative and positive ways, the main purpose was to benefit it. Along the way developers came across many challenges in order to fix and create modern equipment. Some of the reconstructions and creations they did was for the better, others were a waste of money. Everything they had strategically planned out might have not turned out the right way but it was very beneficial in the making of Yuma. Now Yuma is successfully continuing irrigation because of the equipment and ideas formed in the past.
The Yuma Project contributed in helping Yuma blossom into the populated

The United States invested 66 million in the project and were being returned roughly 37 million which is more than half of the money invested. This means the money rate will most likely keep increasing as more crops are produced and the creation of different techniques of irrigation are made to save more money and water. They needed to level out the rate of income to match or go over the money invested. Yuma made a 400 million dollar plant with a purpose of desalting water coming from California to be sent South of the border into Mexico. The desalting plant wasn’t very beneficial and was considered useless to Yuma. The only helpful part of the Yuma Desalting plant was that it was used as a model for future projects. When citrus groves were brought into Yuma it cost $800 per acre and once the fruits were made the money returned was around $1,000 per acre, Yuma made a $200 profit off of every field which was beneficial and worth

Every time a flood would occur it meant it had to be fixed at high costs immediately or more water would be wasted. For all the money spent on flood repairs agribusiness would pay off and provide a high income for the City of Yuma. It is said that $2.8 billion came from agriculture and similar industries. If you were to split them up, $2.26 billion came directly from agriculture and irrigation. More money and business meant Yuma began to grow and needed more people to work in agriculture and jobs related to it, one in four jobs were in agriculture. This expanded Yuma and contributed to the development of more canals and jobs to distribute for the people. During the time an irrigation constructor decided to build a canal. The canal would give water to 30,000 - 40,000 acres used for farming which rounded up to $10 an acre. The canal ended up breaking and turned out to be another useless project that was not a benefit at all. Billions of dollars were spent on his canal project which turned out to be nothing but a waste of money because it was never repaired. To make up for that, a new invention was created, sprinklers. Sprinklers made it easier on produce growers because it reduced the amount of water being wasted and did not require as much labor as basic water