Colorado River Basin Project Act
United States [1968]
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- In Phoenix: Postwar growth
…project, and in 1968 the Colorado River Basin Project Act was passed. The act authorized the CAP, which involved constructing a series of dams along with a canal that would divert water from the Colorado River to be used by many communities, including Phoenix and Tucson.
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