Abstract
AMONG the various expedients put forward for dealing with the problem of unemployment in the United States, one of considerable interest from a scientific point of view is that of Dr. L. E. Freuden-thal, chairman of the Institute of Irrigation Agriculture, American Farm Bureau Federation, Las Cruces, N.M. In an address to the South-Western Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which appears in Science of November 17, 1933, he points out that flood and erosion control are matters of national importance in America in that they are beyond the capacities of individual States to deal with. He instances the huge sums of money which have been beneficially expended on water supply, irrigation, water power and waterway undertakings and the equally enormous losses of life and property due to floods and erosion. The Mississippi flood of 1927, which inundated 18,000 square miles, drove 750,000 persons from their homes, did some 300,000,000 dollars worth of damage and took 246 lives, is, he states, an example of what is happening annually on a smaller scale in nearly every State. For the last twenty years, flood damage in South Carolina and Tennessee has averaged nearly one million dollars per annum.
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Flood and Erosion Control. Nature 133, 96 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133096a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133096a0