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    Michael Hiltzik: California's water usage was built on a historic lie. The cost is now apparent

    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 ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Sep 22, 2022 5 minutes
    A motorhome travels across the Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nevada, in June 2021.

    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 epic 40 years earlier while serving as New Mexico's territorial governor, representatives of six of the seven states of the Colorado River Basin applied their signatures to the compact with a gold pen.

    The compact — essentially an interstate treaty — set the rules for apportioning the waters of the river. It was a crucial step in construction of Hoover Dam, which could not have been built

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