An essential primer detailing how overuse, megadrought and climate change are threatening the Colorado River's dwindling water supply throughout the West and Mexico.
Irrigation has been crucial to North Dakota’s development. On this date in 1907 it was announced that western governors would gather for the National Irrigation Congress in Sacramento, California. Governors of sixteen western states and territories under the National Reclamation Act were expected to attend. The Federal Government was engaged in many reclamation projects throughout the west, and the National Irrigation Congress was an opportunity for the governors to have input into those projects.
Editorial Note: Part 263 of a series of further development in the early days that impacted Franklin County. Sources: Preston News, 1908, 1910 ; Cache Valley News, 1906; Franklin County