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Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 100 lives. In bills passed by Congress during its construction, it was referred to as the Hoover Dam, after President Herbert Hoover, but was named Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. In 1947, the name Hoover Dam was restored by Congress.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water, and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium named Six Companies, Inc., which began construction in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques used were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead and is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction, with 7 million tourists a year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.
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85 years after its completion, Hoover dam is still considered an engineering marvel. It is named in honor of President Herbert Hoover, who played a crucial role in its creation.
For many years, residents of the American southwest sought to tame the unpredictable Colorado River. Disastrous floods during the early 1900’s led residents of the area to look to the federal government for aid, and experiments with irrigation on a limited scale had shown that this arid region could be transformed into fertile cropland, if only the river could be controlled. The greatest obstacle to the construction of such a dam was the allocation of water rights among the seven states comprising the Colorado River drainage basin. Meetings were held in 1918, 1919 and 1920, but the states could not reach a consensus.
Herbert Hoover had visited the Lower Colorado region in the years before World War I and was familiar with its problems and the potential for development. Upon becoming Secretary of Commerce in 1921, Hoover proposed the construction of a dam on the Colorado River. In addition to flood control and irrigation, it would provide a dependable supply of water for Los Angeles and Southern California. The project would be self-supporting, recovering its cost through the sale of hydroelectric power generated by the dam.
In 1921, the state legislatures of the Colorado River basin authorized commissioners to negotiate an interstate agreement. Congress authorized President Harding to appoint a representative for the federal government to serve as chair of the Colorado River Commission and on December 17, 1921, Harding appointed Hoover to that role.
When the commission assembled in Santa Fe in November 1922, the seven states still disagreed over the fair distribution of water. The upstream states feared that the downstream states, with their rapidly developing agricultural and power demands, would quickly preempt rights to the water by the “first in time, first in right” doctrine. Hoover suggested a compromise that the water be divided between the upper and lower basins without individual state quotas. The resulting Colorado River Compact was signed on November 24, 1922. It split the river basin into upper and lower halves with the states within each region deciding amongst themselves how the water would be allocated.
A series of bills calling for Federal funding to build the dam were introduced by Congressman Phil D. Swing and Senator Hiram W. Johnson between 1922 and 1928, all of which were rejected. The last Swing-Johnson bill, titled the Boulder Canyon Project Act, was largely written by Hoover and Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work. Congress finally agreed, and the bill was signed into law on December 21, 1928 by President Coolidge. The dream was about to become reality.
On June 25, 1929, less than four months after his inauguration, President Herbert Hoover signed a proclamation declaring the Colorado River Compact effective at last. Appropriations were approved and construction began in 1930. The dam was dedicated in 1935 and the hydroelectric generators went online in 1937. In 1947, Congress officially "restored" Hoover's name to the dam, after FDR's Secretary of the Interior tried to remove it. Hoover Dam was built for a cost of $49 million (approximately $1 billion adjusted for inflation). The power plant and generators cost an additional $71 million, more than the cost of the dam itself. The sale of electrical power generated by the dam paid back its construction cost, with interest, by 1987.
Today the Hoover Dam controls the flooding of the Colorado River, irrigates more than 1.5 million acres of land, and provides water to more than 16 million people. Lake Mead supports recreational activities and provides habitats to fish and wildlife. Power generated by the dam provides energy to power over 500,000 homes. The Hoover Compromise still governs how the water is shared.
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(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Nevada) "نيفادا" "内华达州" "नेवादा" "ネバダ" "네바다" "Невада"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Hoover Dam) "سد هوفر" "胡佛水坝" "हूवर बांध" "フーバーダム" "후버 댐" "Гувера" "Presa Hoover"
Workers have to set up shop in the middle of a very busy intersection at the corner of Washington and Milk Streets.
Fish harvest worker after harvesting carp and other fish on Mr Ma's fish farm, Shezhong Village, Linghu County, Zhejiang Province, China. The man is covered in mud as the water from one pond is pumped out to retrieve all the fish, leaving behind mud. The total sum of carp produced on these relatively small farms in China is more than the total amount of fish produced any other nation.
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Mourners at the Workers' Memorial Day service at the Victorian Trades Hall building, Melbourne on Monday, 29 April 2013. Photos by Mark Phillips
Walmart employees picket outside of the Walmart store in Duarte, California on Thursday November 7, 2013. The employees accuse Walmart of continued unlawful retaliation against workers who speak out for change at the company. Some of the striking workers say that when they have come forward to call on Walmart to address issues with scheduling, wages, benefits and above all else, respect in the work place, Walmart has reacted by retaliating against them.
Photo Title: HEALTH WORKERS' MEET
Submitted by: RAJAT KUMAR DAS
Category: ♥ HEALTH FOR ALL
Country: India
Organization: PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION OF BENGAL (PAB), INDIA
Photo Caption: Health workers are providing services to remote areas of the Himalayas throughout the world to the underprivileged families with all the issues related to their health including vision. Health workers support and experiences are mostly needed in crores of remote villages where proper infrastructure can't reach in time due inaccessibility.
Professional or Amateur Photographer: Amateur
Country where the photo was taken: India
Photo uploaded for the #LoveYourEyes Photo Competition on iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2021.
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jeff brought 'em beer...promoted the guy on the ladder to tell him they hadn't peed in our house...i guess that's good to know...
Rode my bicycle to down town and spotted this sink hole my daughter was telling me of. On the other side of that wall there digging a huge hole for a building.
A SLEMCO work crew is making repairs to a power line on Hwy 167. Utility workers are regarded as essential and asked to report to work as residents are asked to stay home. Monday, March 23, 2020.
There is plenty of water here while in Australia and many other countries you might be fined for water abuse!
Local workers and Roth's volunteers unite to build the Piave Maternity Ward near Nakuru in Kenya, East Africa. The Ward was build with no electricity or machinery of any kind and still manage to stay on schedule through the building process.
Jamdani (Bengali: জামদানি) is one of the finest muslin textiles of Bengal, produced in Bangladesh for centuries.
The historic production of Jamdani was patronized by imperial warrants of the Mughal emperors. Under British colonialism, the Bengali Jamdani and muslin industries rapidly declined due to colonial import policies favoring industrially manufactured textiles. In more recent years, the production of Jamdani has witnessed a revival in Bangladesh.
The traditional art of weaving Jamdani has been declared by UNESCO as a Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
"Pomnik Poległych Stoczniowców" in Polish, to commemorate demonstrating workers of the Lenin shipyard shot by soldiers.
Construction workers working with cement on Borromeo Hall.
Object ID: CC Alumni b1f30p14a.jpeg
Date: circa 1950s
Location: Carroll College, Helena, Montana
Repository: Corette Library
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worker bee sucking nectar from artichoke flower. .© Patricia Fenn. All Rights Reserved. No usage allowed including copying or sharing without written permission.
Some workers of Hazaribagh, This toxic working environment is causing serious air, water pollusion of dhaka city ...
Certainly they are the workers of hell ...
Stone collectors and crushers. Stones are dredged from Dholai river in the north-eastern part of Bangladesh. It is a massive stone production center with strings of small companies operating in the area devoid of monopoly by any one company. The stones are then used for constructions in every part of Bangladesh. The day laborers here gets less than 2USD per day, so some workers had their whole family, including their young children to work here to dig up or crush stones.
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tekel işçilerinin direnişinin 76. günü/ 76th day of tekel workers' resistance
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