I live in the Pacific Northwest, the land of rain and clouds and mist and fog and rivers and streams and lakes and ponds and fertile land with emerald green forests.
It is bizarre that anyone would want to live in the desert of the Southwest.
I think arid places and even out right deserts are beautiful. Swampy humid jungle conditions and cold winters suck moose d-—.
Meh. I grew up there, in the rain and the rain and the rain and the rain and the rain...
Now I live in the desert west of Tucson. I will admit it was a little warm this afternoon at 116, but to me a few nice sunny January afternoons will make up for it.
Sunshine everyday. That said, we built the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal system traversing a very large state from just south of Las Vegas to Tucson.
It’s time to extend it through barren Nevada to No. Cal and the Cascades. Yosemite, Shasta, Oregon, etc. who often can’t handle the rain, or store it for use during future drought.
I used to do a lot of contract work for Ft. Huachuca, Sierra Vista, AZ. My contractor representative was an avid Cowboy Poets fan and one night he took me to a special presentation by a history expert of the area. They guy dressed up in real wool Buffalo soldier-like uniform, kit and sabre.....he talked Ft. Huachuca and the general area back then.
There was a river and the area was much greener. You can see vestiges of how it must have been like in the older parts of the Fort up near the base of the adjacent mountain even today.
My thought is that it just isn’t the Colorado River, but the entire southwest basin that feeds it has been ‘managed’ and aggregated to all collect in Lake Meade where humanity’s usage will eventually drain it - to get water to California and other areas that have grown out of reasonable progression.
Doesn’t China own water rights in the U.S.?