Arizona is one of the most water-scarce states in America yet it supports over 8 million people, millions of acres of farmland, and some of the fastest-growing cities on earth. The story of how that became possible stretches back more than a thousand years, from the Hohokam peoples 500-mile canal system along the Salt River to the federally-funded engineering marvels that followed. When early settlers arrived in the 19th century, a visionary named Jack Swilling rediscovered those ancient canals and gave birth to the city of Phoenix planting the seed of a water infrastructure that would take over a century to fully mature.
Today, Arizonas water supply runs through the Central Arizona Project a 336-mile aqueduct that lifts Colorado River water uphill nearly 3,000 feet using 14 pumping stations, making it the single largest consumer of electricity in the state. But the system is under pressure. Junior water rights, a decades-long megadrought, and the structural deficit of Lake Mead have already triggered mandatory cutbacks. In this episode, we trace the full history of Arizonas water works: who built them, who almost destroyed them, and why the taps are unlikely to run dry even if the river does.
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