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Social Impacts of Water Resource Developments and Their Implications for Urban and Rural Development: a Post-Audit Analysis of the Weber Basin Project in Utah

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Title	Social Impacts of Water Resource Developments and Their Implications for Urban and Rural Development: a Post-Audit Analysis of the Weber Basin Project in Utah
Description	This study of the social impacts of Water Reclamation was directed toward determining some of the non-economic effects of a major water project on the social well being of both urban and rural areas, and the identification of methodological approaches to this problem. Certain changing conditions that are relevant to social behavior in water resource development should be pointed out. Economic affluence has become widespread among large segments of the population, and this condition permits choices for the use of one's energy and resources which are beyond the requirements for subsistence living only. This study deals with the Weber Basin Project in Utah, constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It will include the development of methodologies for analyzing the social conditions in reclamation development areas and explore ways of evaluating some of the social effects of a reclamation project. There were previous major developments in the project area and these have also had a great effect upon the area of study. One of these, for example, is the earlier Pineview Project. However, the attempt is made here to relate the effects as nearly as possible, only to the more recent projects, knowing that this has its difficulties and that the area was already largely developed under previous projects. The Weber Basin Project was built in a river basin serving as urbanized metropolitan area as well as a rural area. The urban area includes Ogden, Utah, a central industrial-commercial city of about 70,000 residents, and a related fringe suburban and rural population of an additional 80,000. This Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area lies adjacent to and north of the Salt Lake City SMSA. Both areas and the cities lie along the western base of the Wasatch Mountain Range. Consequently, the water resources here have urban and recreational uses as well as agricultural uses. The major goals of this study were: 1. Explore and describe the social conditions where a major reclamation water development project has been built. 2. Analyze how the present conditions relate to the original goals of the project and in what way, if any, there have been effects beyond the original goals. 3. Explore methods of evaluating social and aesthetic, or non-economic values. This report will deal with the social impacts and methodologies developed in relation to a post audit analysis of selected social effects of the Weber Basin Project. These analyses are made against a backdrop of changing social conditions and needs and include changes or modifications in the goals and uses of the water resource and the evaluation of certain perceptions of impacts as seen by municipal, industrial and irrigation water officials as well as farm and non-farm publics.
Author	Andrews, Wade H. Madsen, Gary E. Legaz, Gregor J.
Contributers	Utah State University. Institute for Social Science Research on Natural Resources
Original Date	December 1974
Publisher of Original	Institute for Social Science Research on Natural Resources, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Location	Weber River Watershed (Utah) Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho) Weber County (Utah) Morgan County (Utah) Davis County (Utah) Utah United States
Subject (LCSH)	Water resources development--Social aspects--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)
Time Periods	1970-1979 20th century
Material type (Local)	Reports
Source	Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, University Archives 17.16:37 no. 4
Collection	Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, University Archives
USU Call Number	17.16:37 no. 4
Digital Publisher	Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library
Date.Digital	2009-03
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Holding Institution	Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives
Contributing Institution	Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library
Search Date	1974-12
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Date created	2015-11-11

Title	Front Cover
Holding Institution	Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives
Transcript	SOCIAL IMPACTS OF WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENTS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR URBAN AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT: A POST-AUDIT ANALYSIS OF THE WEBER BASIN PROJECT IN UTAH By Wade H. Andrews Gary E. Madsen Gregor J. Legaz For The Office of Water Research and Technology of the US Department of the Interior ro 1_ — 3 CD 4-J — TO O "^ o OO c O -C S- D. O -C TO 14- O S_ S- O) CL) TO O ■W O u IBI •— a: 4J cn CO CD CL) emu — o s_ cu o r-^ — to cn o cu co a: vo -— f^ o — c Institute for Social Science Research on Natural Resources Utah State University Logan, Utah 84321 Research Monograph No. 4 December, 1974
Date created	2009-04-07

Social Impacts of Water Resource Developments and Their Implications for Urban and Rural Development: a Post-Audit Analysis of the Weber Basin Project in Utah

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