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The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation. Currently the USBR is the largest wholesaler of water in the country, bringing water to more than 31 million people, and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland, which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. The USBR is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric pow

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  • United States Bureau of Reclamation (en)
  • Bureau of Reclamation (de)
  • Bureau of Reclamation (fr)
  • United States Bureau of Reclamation (it)
  • アメリカ合衆国開拓局 (ja)
  • United States Bureau of Reclamation (nl)
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  • Das Bureau of Reclamation (früher der United States Reclamation Service) (wörtlich übersetzt: „Büro für Landgewinnung“ oder „Urbarmachung“) ist eine Behörde unter dem Dach des Innenministeriums der Vereinigten Staaten, die für die Wasserwirtschaft und Wasserversorgung zuständig ist. Insbesondere hat sie die Aufsicht über zahlreiche Wasserversorgungsprojekte, Wasserspeicher, Wasserverteilungseinrichtungen und Wasserkraftprojekte im westlichen Teil der USA, und baut sowie betreibt sie teilweise. Sie entspricht in etwa einem Wasserverband in Deutschland. Sitz der Behörde ist in Washington, ihr Budget betrug im Jahr 2018 1,513 Milliarden US-Dollar (rund 1,281 Milliarden Euro bzw. 1,480 Milliarden Schweizer Franken). (de)
  • アメリカ合衆国開拓局(アメリカがっしゅうこくかいたくきょく、英語: United States Bureau of Reclamation、略称:USBR)は、アメリカ合衆国内務省に属し、アメリカ西部で水利ダムの建設などにより、水利用を円滑にしている。 (ja)
  • Lo United States Reclamation Service (anche Il Bureau of Reclamation) è una agenzia federale sotto il controllo del Dipartimento degli Interni degli Stati Uniti d'America che ha il compito di supervisionare lo sfruttamento delle risorse idriche nella parte occidentale degli Stati Uniti. L'agenzia fu istituita nel 1902, come parte del United States Geological Survey, in seguito al dal Segretario degli Interni degli Stati Uniti d'America che fondò il "U.S. Reclamation Service". (it)
  • Le Bureau of Reclamation (anciennement le Reclamation Service) est un organisme fondé en 1902 relevant du département de l'Intérieur des États-Unis qui supervise la gestion des ressources en eau, en particulier la surveillance et/ou l'exploitation des dérivations d'eaux, de sa livraison et de son stockage, ainsi que des projets hydroélectriques construits dans l'Ouest des États-Unis. (fr)
  • The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation. Currently the USBR is the largest wholesaler of water in the country, bringing water to more than 31 million people, and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland, which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. The USBR is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric pow (en)
  • Het United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), voorheen de United States Reclamation Service, is een Amerikaans federaal agentschap dat zich richt op waterbeheer en dan voornamelijk voor irrigatie, watervoorziening en waterkrachtcentrales in het westen van de Verenigde Staten. Het agentschap voorziet meer dan 31 miljoen mensen in het land van water en is daarmee de grootste groothandelaar in water van het land. Eén op vijf landbouwers in het Amerikaanse westen worden door het Bureau of Reclamation van irrigatiewater voorzien. Het agentschap is tevens de grootste producent van elektriciteit uit waterkracht in het westen van de VS. (nl)
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  • Bureau of Reclamation (en)
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