Chuck Bryant

Yeah, I agree.

So I bet George lives in one of those states.

But like you said, the Colorado River, very important.

It provides, I think Julia helped us with this, and it supports roughly 10% of Americans living

And one point four trillion dollars economically.

So it is a very, very important river system that starts there in the Rocky Mountains and then flows generally southwest.

And there are all sorts of tributaries and things that feed into it.

As we'll see, that has become a bone of contention here and there, but a lot of it is their bones of contention because this river compact that they forged in 1922 to say, hey, how are we going to divide this water up?

Everybody wants to use this stuff.

It's...

it's up now this year, right?

In 2026.

Yeah.

And they're trying to figure out, you know, what to do about the next 20 years.

And there's, especially between California and Arizona, but a lot of the states have bones of contention with one another on how this water is used.

Yeah, well, yeah, and we're going to get into that stuff too because there's not as much water as they thought there would be.

And it seems like it's not coming back to the boom days for reasons that we're going to talk about.

But one thing we should talk about is why water is so important out there.

And obviously one of the reasons is because there's not much of it.

Highs out in the desert can reach over 125 degrees with great regularity.