Chuck Bryant

But like you said, Colorado and Wyoming and other states, New Mexico, were like, well, we want to grow one day and do these big projects, too.

We're just not there yet.

It's 1922.

Give us a break.

So they got together to negotiate this thing, the Colorado River Compact in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in November of 1922.

Nice.

Nuts and bolts wise, it was kind of cool.

It's the first time more than three U.S.

states divided water among themselves.

And we're going to talk a little bit more about the law of the river because it's got a lot of like tendrils to it.

But that established what would evolve over time as what's called the law of the river.

Yeah, yeah.

But here's the deal.

He was like, you know, let's not divide it up by states.

Let's not apportion it state by state because that just makes too much sense.

He said, let's split up the Colorado River Basin into two areas.

equal parts, and allot equal amounts to each half.

So you've got the upper basin and your lower basin allotments, and we'll talk about numbers here in a second.

But within those, then you distribute by state.

Like you've got the upper portion splitting it between, I guess, everything but California and Arizona, right?