Chuck Bryant

I lived out there.

People always loved Arizona, but they were thirsty.

So this really helped out.

Yeah, I lived in Yuma.

And, you know, that's where, well, we'll see.

Yuma plays a part.

Huge part.

Surprise pop-up appearance by Yuma coming up, everybody.

Yeah, probably not.

One thing they decided to do in 1974 was give Mexico better water.

So the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act said, all right, let's get some salinity control going over the water that we're sending down to Mexico.

So, you know, they need good water down there.

Yeah, for sure.

That led to 2019 with a drought contingency plan, which is basically just like, hey, we all need to work together with conservation here because this drought is murdering us.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

All right, so we're back.

We mentioned, you know, that long drought and conservation efforts that were happening and are happening but aren't nearly enough.

And we need to talk about some of the reasons why it's not enough and what's going on out there.

And one of the problems is that, you know, I mentioned early on when they calculated the flow of the river at 16.4 million acre feet per year, this was one hydrology study