Chuck Bryant

Annual rainfall.

This is near the Hoover Dam.

And, you know, we did a great episode, I think, on the Hoover Dam between Nevada and Arizona.

Annual rainfall there is about four inches.

So the Colorado River is the thing.

It's the most key thing that we have at our disposal to keep things alive.

Yeah.

That's right.

So back when this, you know, in 1922, when this thing was first enacted—

and ratified, well, I guess it was ratified a little more slowly over time, as we'll see.

But California and Arizona were developing much more so than places like Colorado and Wyoming.

So as far as the upper and the lower basin, the lower basin areas were really exploding at the time.

If you were closer to those headwaters, you didn't have those dams.

There weren't opportunities to sort of divert that water to save up for the future, maybe.

So all of that water was going downstream where they were collecting it and using it, which is sort of where the animosity began, I think.

Yeah, for sure.

And, you know, to be clear, that Supreme Court decision was basically that that first in time, first in right applied across the state lines.

You're sharing this river, but they were using it.

So, like, sorry that you can't now take that away from them, essentially.

No.