By Jack Curtis Webster describes drought as, “long continued dry weather: want of rain.” Obviously Mr. Webster never observed a Western states’ drought. Annual is a misused description of a drought. The one we are experiencing this year is a continuation of one that started in 2000. Precipitation and runoff in the basin are highly...
By Jack Curtis The States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, having resolved to enter into a compact under the Act of Congress of the United States of America approved it on August 19, 1921. The Acts of the Legislatures of the said States, have through their Governors, appointed Commissioners to sign the...
By Jack Curtis Some things you might know, and things you may not know about water and river basins. We all use water and take for granted that it will always be there. For the last last few hundred years it has slowly been disappearing here in the southwest in greater quantities. The reason is more usage, less snow pack in the western region...
