Last week I traveled the back roads of Western Arizona, through what remains of the town of Poston. It was named for “the Father of Arizona,” Charles Debrille Poston, whose efforts contributed to the creation of the Arizona Territory. Poston laid out the Colorado River Reservation and the irrigation system that distributed water from the […]
Water is for Fighting
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. […]
Memorial Day 2023
Like many Arizonans, I spent a few of the last days of spring last week in Southern California. As it happens, some of those days were spent in Oceanside, just south of USMC Base Camp Pendleton. Our lodging was adjacent to an old city cemetery, placarded as the “I.O.O.F. Cemetery.” I.O.O.F. is an abbreviation for […]