"Nineteenth-century water law is meeting 20th-century infrastructure and 21st century climate change, and it leads to a nonsensical outcome"

Bradley Udall, a senior fellow at the University of Colorado Law School

This page is dedicated to all the hard working men, women and families that made the Western United States what it is today.They toiled in the heat and dry desert to build the great veins of blue that wind their way across the arid west to bring us fruit, vegetables, shade trees, green lawns and hours of pleasure swimming in our pools. We have selected photographs from a library of thousands and will continue to update and share these memories with you.