Tag: David Owen
40 million people, one river, and a cell phone… down Rio Colorado
Besuited and bow-tied, men from seven Western states met on Nov. 9, 1922 at Bishop’s Lodge in Santa Fe, N.M., to forge an agreement for the allocation of water from the 1,450-mile-long Colorado River — the lifeblood of the arid West. The Colorado River Compact divides the river basin into two — the Upper (Colorado, […]
