Josh Clark

Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too, and we're just a few river rats hanging out, thinking about rivers and such.

Yeah.

Or if you're interested in water supply, this one's for you as well.

If you like really difficult interstate treaties, I think you'll like this one as well.

So, yes, we're talking about the Colorado River.

We're talking about the compact of water sharing among those states, the basin states they call them, which is a pretty cool name, of sharing the water that comes out of the Colorado River, which is about almost a 1,500-mile-long river that winds through the southwestern U.S.

all the way into Mexico.

And it helps feed all of those states that

Most of which should not have the populations that they have and wouldn't otherwise were it not for their ability to tap into the water from the Colorado.

Yeah, because there's almost a self-defeating pickle that they've been in just from sharing this.

By having access to that water, they've been able to boom like cities like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson.

The list just goes on.

They are able to have these huge populations in golf courses, in industry, in agriculture, in the Imperial Valley in California because of the Colorado River.

So that's attracted more and more people, which means you need more and more water.

So those bones of contention have grown over the years.

And now that it's 100 plus years old, yeah, there's an issue.

There's a problem with this that we're going to see because this river is like, I can't take any more water.

Yeah.

It's mother, life, blood, life giver.