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Show R1VEB'-WATER USED EIGHT TllflES. Power can be develi pjd upon many ma-ny surface stret.ms and applied to ttie recovery of the water of the streams after it has hank into the earth in the Iqtver lands of the valleys An instance in-stance of this character according to the United' States Geological survej is to be found f;Jong Santa Ana sivei iu southern California. A par(; of the-water of .Ibis r'ver 's stored in a reservoir iu the San Bernardino Ber-nardino mouiitaius and the flow tf the stream is thereby regolated. Af- ter it- escapes from the reservoir it is diverted through a power plant jud electric power is generated. Below j this ppwer plnut it is rediverted and passedjthruugh a m-cmd pewer plant. Below this it is all dietribu ted ami used for municipal purposes and irri aatiou-about liedlands. and High-laudd, High-laudd, The waters; that return from !he irrigation are recovered in spiiugs and flowiug vvells and by pumping Dlauts. a portion of the power devel :ped higher up on the streams bainy; iaed for the pumping. This recovered -vnier is used for irrigation abGUt Sau Bernardino and Riverside. A part of it reappears iu the river above Riverside narrows, where it is again taken out into i power pow-er ditch whose waters are returned to the river nbove Corono. A few miles below it is picked up by canals and distributed to the orange mil decidi-ouh decidi-ouh groves atiout Anbhi-imaiul Santa Aua. The portion of it thai returns there, by itrigaiion, to the ground water is once more recovered hv the many pumping plants aud flowing welU west of Santa Aua. A single drop cf water in its pro gress from the mountains to the Rea, a distance of 100 miles , may thus- he used aa many as eight times for power pow-er and irrigation. |
