No time to read the news articles? We’ve bundled the last week’s worth of them into our Western-Water Weekly video series. Videos now include a new feature, the “Blast from the Basin,” which reviews some of the disturbing, wild or entertaining stories from newspaper archives. The latest video is now available and embedded below:
This week’s episode covers urgent negotiations over the Colorado River, a surprising experiment to fight caddisflies at Davis Dam, and a major Rio Grande settlement that could end over a decade of litigation. It also looks at global water inequalities reflected in tribal communities, new groundwater registration rules in California, Arizona’s river restoration projects, and a proposed water transfer plan in California.
And in this week’s Blast from the Basin, we time-warp back to 1934 — when Arizona and California nearly went to war over Parker Dam. Armed troops, machine guns, and a ferry called the “Arizona Navy” make this one of the wildest stories in Western water history.
