Interesting article about the Colorado from it's headwaters to the Cortez here.
4Cata - 5-25-2015 at 08:43 PM
Thank you Santiago,, for posting that excellent article. Though I started life in El Centro and frequented the Salton Sea, I left the area while in
grade school. My dad was a cropduster for HL Stoker company after the war. Stopping by the Salton Sea now is so very depressing. People had such
high hopes for it in the early 50s. Now much is just rotting and sinking into the mud. The article filled in a lot of holes in my understanding.
Who's the cute kid?motoged - 5-25-2015 at 09:07 PM
A well-written and informative article....thanks for the link.Whale-ista - 5-25-2015 at 11:13 PM
Thank you for posting- good article, esp this section:
"To prevent California from taking the water instead—by the terms of the compact, California is entitled to use any water that other states
don’t—Phoenix, Tucson, and other Arizona municipalities agreed to take CAP water they didn’t need and sell it to farmers at a deep discount. The
cities were willing to do that, Gammage told me, because “keeping water away from California is one of our fundamental principles.”
Proving once again: water flows uphill, towards money.Santiago - 5-26-2015 at 05:51 AM
I'm to the right of Genghis Khan on the "Fix the world weather" issue but it is telling that the groundwater in the Great Basin has subsided 7 fold
over the flow and stock shrinkage.
Isn't that the real Cliff's notes on this one?motoged - 5-26-2015 at 01:42 PM
Jorge,
Lean on your left elbow in the easy chair once in a while.....probably won't throw your back out for too long
(no harm meant) Osprey - 5-26-2015 at 02:16 PM
That would really throw me off kilter. I have two right elbows. Left or right it will make you crazier --- all these people wasting water washing cars
and trucks. Sheesh. What's next, windows and doors?motoged - 5-26-2015 at 02:36 PM
