Water war bubbling up between California and Arizona LA Times

Once upon a time, California and Arizona went to war over water.
The year was 1934, and Arizona was convinced that the construction of Parker Dam on the lower Colorado River was merely a plot to enable California to steal its water rights. Its governor, Benjamin Moeur, dispatched a squad of National Guardsmen up the river to secure the eastern bank from the decks of the ferryboat Julia B. — derisively dubbed "Arizona's navy" by a Times war correspondent assigned to cover the skirmish. After the federal government imposed a truce, the guardsmen returned home as "conquering heroes."
The next water war between California and Arizona won't be such an amusing little affair. And it's coming soon.

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

The issue still is the Colorado River.

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