Kyle Paoletta

Within a couple of decades, the residential population has grown to the point where they can no longer pump groundwater because they're using the dam water for irrigation. People are drinking pumped water. Very quickly, it becomes silty and undrinkable. So they build a pipeline to the Verde River, which is sort of the next tributary north, and that allows them to expand again

Within a couple of decades, the residential population has grown to the point where they can no longer pump groundwater because they're using the dam water for irrigation. People are drinking pumped water. Very quickly, it becomes silty and undrinkable. So they build a pipeline to the Verde River, which is sort of the next tributary north, and that allows them to expand again

Within a couple of decades, the residential population has grown to the point where they can no longer pump groundwater because they're using the dam water for irrigation. People are drinking pumped water. Very quickly, it becomes silty and undrinkable. So they build a pipeline to the Verde River, which is sort of the next tributary north, and that allows them to expand again

which works until the 1950s when they suddenly need much more water than the Verde can provide. And you actually have a situation where the newspaper, the Arizona Republic, has a headline that is basically, Phoenix is going to run out of water a week from now.

which works until the 1950s when they suddenly need much more water than the Verde can provide. And you actually have a situation where the newspaper, the Arizona Republic, has a headline that is basically, Phoenix is going to run out of water a week from now.

which works until the 1950s when they suddenly need much more water than the Verde can provide. And you actually have a situation where the newspaper, the Arizona Republic, has a headline that is basically, Phoenix is going to run out of water a week from now.

Like, there is a genuine crisis that I believe is actually on the 4th of July when this headline runs that, like, we are imminently going to run out of water. And very luckily, there is a massive rainstorm that follows, and they just kind of luck out of the crisis. But that experience leads them to say, okay, we need to, like... Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right.

Like, there is a genuine crisis that I believe is actually on the 4th of July when this headline runs that, like, we are imminently going to run out of water. And very luckily, there is a massive rainstorm that follows, and they just kind of luck out of the crisis. But that experience leads them to say, okay, we need to, like... Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right.

Like, there is a genuine crisis that I believe is actually on the 4th of July when this headline runs that, like, we are imminently going to run out of water. And very luckily, there is a massive rainstorm that follows, and they just kind of luck out of the crisis. But that experience leads them to say, okay, we need to, like... Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right.

And this is why today almost all of residential Phoenix used to be farms. And all of that, the water that supplies the subdivisions is water from the Roosevelt Reservoir that was primarily irrigating citrus and cotton. So that allows the next growth spurt. And then we get into the 70s and they recognize again, we're growing so fast, we don't have enough water.

And this is why today almost all of residential Phoenix used to be farms. And all of that, the water that supplies the subdivisions is water from the Roosevelt Reservoir that was primarily irrigating citrus and cotton. So that allows the next growth spurt. And then we get into the 70s and they recognize again, we're growing so fast, we don't have enough water.

And this is why today almost all of residential Phoenix used to be farms. And all of that, the water that supplies the subdivisions is water from the Roosevelt Reservoir that was primarily irrigating citrus and cotton. So that allows the next growth spurt. And then we get into the 70s and they recognize again, we're growing so fast, we don't have enough water.

And that's how you get the Central Arizona Project, which is the 300-mile aqueduct to the Colorado River, allows Arizona to take advantage of its share of that river that it broke up with the other states. And that's completed in, I believe, 1993, and it connects both Phoenix and Tucson to the Colorado. And we are now...

And that's how you get the Central Arizona Project, which is the 300-mile aqueduct to the Colorado River, allows Arizona to take advantage of its share of that river that it broke up with the other states. And that's completed in, I believe, 1993, and it connects both Phoenix and Tucson to the Colorado. And we are now...

And that's how you get the Central Arizona Project, which is the 300-mile aqueduct to the Colorado River, allows Arizona to take advantage of its share of that river that it broke up with the other states. And that's completed in, I believe, 1993, and it connects both Phoenix and Tucson to the Colorado. And we are now...

for 30 years later have reached the point at which it's like, oh, still not really enough water.

for 30 years later have reached the point at which it's like, oh, still not really enough water.

for 30 years later have reached the point at which it's like, oh, still not really enough water.

Well, I think Powell is such a fascinating figure because he's the one who first charged the Colorado for the United States and helps facilitate the Arab settlement by saying, here's where the canyons are, here's where Lee's Ferry is, the premier place to cross the river. But after that experience, he gives a very famous speech where he basically says that

Well, I think Powell is such a fascinating figure because he's the one who first charged the Colorado for the United States and helps facilitate the Arab settlement by saying, here's where the canyons are, here's where Lee's Ferry is, the premier place to cross the river. But after that experience, he gives a very famous speech where he basically says that