PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Reclamation's products and services today cover a wide range of interrelated functions. The products include:
- Providing municipal and industrial water supplies
- Hydroelectric power generation
- Irrigation water for agriculture
- Water quality improvement
- Flood control
- River navigation
- River regulation and control
- Fish and wildlife enhancement
- Outdoor recreation
- Water related research
Reclamation also provides valuable services, including:
- Visitor facilities and tours which increase public understanding and interest about power facilities and utilities.
- Providing irrigation water delivery and storage to meet the needs and balance the interests of all water users, including agricultural users, power users, recreationists, and fish and wildlife
- Regulating river flows (rates and temperature) from power facilities to accommodate peak use period in a manner that does not adversely affect fish and wildlife and recreationists
- Operating and maintaining power facilities in manner which minimizes interruption of power generation and helps provide power system support and stability
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