Water and Politics

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The Dust Bowl was one of the greatest natural phenomenons in the world. When I was reading the assigned reading, it kind of seemed that the Dust Bowl was a blessing in disguise. Because of the less rain fall and lack of water resources this led to new government programs. One of the new programs were to help reform the agriculture and the way they took care of the land. It also brought attention to big problems such as not enough water to maintain the land. All of these new programs came with the New Deal. In my opinion the damage of the Dust Bowl was sort of a way for political gain. There were all of these new programs implemented to try and help the land. I also agree with ngojoseph that,”most scholars view this event as an isolated disaster with one lesson to be learned about why we shouldn’t over-farm land.” Over-farming the land partially led to the Dust bowl which ended up making permanent damages to the land. It really interested me on how the government turned these events into opportunities. We have been talking about that in class a lot and since then I keep catching it in the readings we are being assigned.