Put yourself for a moment in 1922. You could drive a new Model T off the lot for under $400. The Congressional investigation ramped up into the President Warren G. Harding administration’s Teapot Dome scandal. Your great-great grandfather might have worked a farm or in a machine shop in one of the United States’ rapidly industrializing cities.
That year, seven of the 48 states signed the Colorado River Compact, which apportions water rights between the river’s Upper and Lower Basins. What has changed in more than a century since the compact’s signing?