Kyle Paoletta

And this sense of we can take this place and turn it into Europe. something that's more familiar east of the Mississippi as where you get this dictum of the rainfall follows the plow, which was very popular in the Manifest Destiny era that simply by cultivating land, you would turn it temperate and you would turn it into good agricultural land.

And this sense of we can take this place and turn it into Europe. something that's more familiar east of the Mississippi as where you get this dictum of the rainfall follows the plow, which was very popular in the Manifest Destiny era that simply by cultivating land, you would turn it temperate and you would turn it into good agricultural land.

And even the Bureau of Reclamation, which is responsible for the Hoover Dam and much of the water infrastructure in the West, the name reclamation comes from the idea that there is some past version of the land that was facilitated mass agriculture. We simply have to reclaim it. We're not changing the environment. We're returning it to some idea of what it used to be.

And even the Bureau of Reclamation, which is responsible for the Hoover Dam and much of the water infrastructure in the West, the name reclamation comes from the idea that there is some past version of the land that was facilitated mass agriculture. We simply have to reclaim it. We're not changing the environment. We're returning it to some idea of what it used to be.

And even the Bureau of Reclamation, which is responsible for the Hoover Dam and much of the water infrastructure in the West, the name reclamation comes from the idea that there is some past version of the land that was facilitated mass agriculture. We simply have to reclaim it. We're not changing the environment. We're returning it to some idea of what it used to be.

Yeah, I mean, I think the history of Phoenix is a history of using up all of the water available and then reaching further to another water source. So it starts with the Salt River and irrigating the Salt River. And very rapidly, Phoenix becomes a kind of premier agricultural center, certainly in the region, but throughout the West.

Yeah, I mean, I think the history of Phoenix is a history of using up all of the water available and then reaching further to another water source. So it starts with the Salt River and irrigating the Salt River. And very rapidly, Phoenix becomes a kind of premier agricultural center, certainly in the region, but throughout the West.

Yeah, I mean, I think the history of Phoenix is a history of using up all of the water available and then reaching further to another water source. So it starts with the Salt River and irrigating the Salt River. And very rapidly, Phoenix becomes a kind of premier agricultural center, certainly in the region, but throughout the West.

And what happens, as I mentioned at the beginning, the Salt River is a very irregular river. And so they have sort of the first decade in the 1870s is a boom time. There's regular rain, good snowpack. They're able to really expand what's under cultivation very rapidly. The next decade is a drought. And...

And what happens, as I mentioned at the beginning, the Salt River is a very irregular river. And so they have sort of the first decade in the 1870s is a boom time. There's regular rain, good snowpack. They're able to really expand what's under cultivation very rapidly. The next decade is a drought. And...

And what happens, as I mentioned at the beginning, the Salt River is a very irregular river. And so they have sort of the first decade in the 1870s is a boom time. There's regular rain, good snowpack. They're able to really expand what's under cultivation very rapidly. The next decade is a drought. And...

It's probably the only time in Phoenix's history where it lost population, where people said like, oh, this isn't work. I'm going to go to California. And so you have this sort of like immediate challenge. And then the boom times recumb so much so that there's a massive flood that destroys the first railroad bridge in Phoenix.

It's probably the only time in Phoenix's history where it lost population, where people said like, oh, this isn't work. I'm going to go to California. And so you have this sort of like immediate challenge. And then the boom times recumb so much so that there's a massive flood that destroys the first railroad bridge in Phoenix.

It's probably the only time in Phoenix's history where it lost population, where people said like, oh, this isn't work. I'm going to go to California. And so you have this sort of like immediate challenge. And then the boom times recumb so much so that there's a massive flood that destroys the first railroad bridge in Phoenix.

So all of that becomes part of why Theodore Roosevelt founds the Bureau of Reclamation is this idea of we need to even out the water. We need to make it possible so that when there's boom years, we can... hold on to that to use in the years when there isn't as much rain or snow.

So all of that becomes part of why Theodore Roosevelt founds the Bureau of Reclamation is this idea of we need to even out the water. We need to make it possible so that when there's boom years, we can... hold on to that to use in the years when there isn't as much rain or snow.

So all of that becomes part of why Theodore Roosevelt founds the Bureau of Reclamation is this idea of we need to even out the water. We need to make it possible so that when there's boom years, we can... hold on to that to use in the years when there isn't as much rain or snow.

And so the first dam that the Bureau of Reclamation builds is now called the Roosevelt Dam in the mountains kind of northeast of Phoenix. And that reservoir becomes what allows Phoenix to really begin growing because it gives it a very sustainable water source.

And so the first dam that the Bureau of Reclamation builds is now called the Roosevelt Dam in the mountains kind of northeast of Phoenix. And that reservoir becomes what allows Phoenix to really begin growing because it gives it a very sustainable water source.

And so the first dam that the Bureau of Reclamation builds is now called the Roosevelt Dam in the mountains kind of northeast of Phoenix. And that reservoir becomes what allows Phoenix to really begin growing because it gives it a very sustainable water source.