Chuck Bryant

That is at the border where the river passes from the upper watershed to the lower watershed.

And that is where this really unique place, quite frankly, where all the tributaries upstream come together in this one beautiful single stream before splitting back up again to other branches on the other side.

So they looked at that and said, hey, Lee Ferry looks like probably a pretty good spot to divide this.

into Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah.

And then, like Josh would one day say, Arizona, California, and don't forget Nevada, Chuck.

I think if you're a Grand Canyon fan, you got to know that by now.

So they this is one of the problems.

And we're going to talk about this later, too.

But they they did a little bit of research on water flow because they had to figure out, like, all right, how much water is that even?

And what they measured was 16.4 million acre feet.

splitting that up into almost 50% each, 7.5 million acre feet per basin in perpetuity, with the rest left over for Mexico.

And we're going to talk about that.

But just so you know, a water, a one acre foot of water is enough water to submerge an acre of land to the depth of one foot.

I knew I wasn't going to have to make the joke.

You can't read that without thinking how Josh waters his lawn.

That's right.

Here's your rice and cranberries.

So an acre of land at the depth of one foot or 325,851 gallons of water.

So they measured 16.4 million acre feet of that and split it in half with the rest going to Mexico.

What does that even mean?