A direct result of the Newlands Reclamation Act was the

The Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902 used money from public-land sales to build irrigation projects in the arid western United States. Its direct result was the construction and management of systems that carried water to dry land. This made some land more suitable for farming or ranching, but that was an outcome of the irrigation projects rather than the act’s most direct result.

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