A recent Facebook post to which I had a knee-jerk response caused me to go back and do some digging. The post said: “Mexico Draws 1.5M AcreFeet of Water every year from the Colorado River (1 AcreFoot of Water is 325,851 Gallons of Water) That’s over 488B that’s 488 Billion with about Gallons of water. […]
A Thin Thread of Blue-Green Waters
Before western “civilization” industrialized the transportation of water to our normally-arid region, indigenous peoples in these dry lands lived where nature chose to hydrate the landscape. In one very special case, the terrain was shaped by ocean sedimentation, upheaval, and erosion to form an almost inaccessible canyon-channel with sufficient elevation change to form magical waterfalls […]
San Pedro River Arizona
Yet another excellent article on the beauty of Arizona by Roger Naylor. “The San Pedro River supports some of the richest wildlife habitat in the Southwest,” says Laura Mackin, bookstore manager at San Pedro House. “This river of life provides resting places for millions of migratory birds and year-round homes for many kinds of plants, […]