The law established the Reclamation Service (later Bureau of Reclamation) and marked a major expansion of federal involvement in Western water development, shaping agriculture, settlement, and infrastructure in the American West.
President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Newlands Reclamation Act, authorizing federal funding for irrigation and reclamation projects in arid Western states.
The law established the Reclamation Service (later Bureau of Reclamation) and marked a major expansion of federal involvement in Western water development, shaping agriculture, settlement, and infrastructure in the American West.
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