Chuck Bryant

that was done in Yuma, Arizona, of all places.

Yeah, there's the pop-up.

It's very strange.

They went down to Yuma.

It was based on a single set of measurements.

If you don't know where Yuma is, it's hundreds of miles downstream from Lee Ferry.

Yeah, so it didn't make a lot of sense to do right there and much less just do one.

So they had another available study even at the time

There was a survey from a hydrologist named Eugene Clyde LaRue, who hiked hundreds of miles all up and down the Colorado River, taking measurements all over the place.

Yeah.

And that had about a million and a half gallons less per year.

Acre feet, even.

And they said, let's go with that other one because 16.4 million is a higher number.

And we think that's just the one we should go with.

And that was a big mistake.

That's ultimately what they did.

Yeah.

So that's a big problem.

Another problem is how this water is being used and how it's always been used.

If you're talking residential use, commercial use, industrial use, that's only about 20 to 25 percent of the Colorado River.