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Column: California's water usage was built on a historic lie. The bill is now coming due

Por: Los Angeles Times Business September 24, 2022

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It's human nature to mark big-number anniversaries, but there's a centennial looming just ahead that Californians — and other Westerners — might not want to celebrate. It's the 100th anniversary of the Colorado River Compact, a seven-state agreement that was signed Nov. 24, 1922. That evening, in the Ben Hur Room of Santa Fe's Palace of the Governors, using the lapboard on which Gen. Lew Wallace had written his biblical... + full article



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