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>>/135762/, >>/135763/ Arizona navy? Water fight with California goes back to famous 1934 standoff Mar 4, 2023 The bad blood between Arizona and California over river water has resurfaced nearly 90 years after the standoff. California water officials recently called out Arizona to “live within its available Colorado River water supplies” — and respect California’s senior rights to river water. https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/arizona-navy-water-fight-with-california-goes-back-to-famous-1934-standoff/ California: Parker Dam The Parker Dam story has not always been so lighthearted, though many benefits have come with the dam, built on the Arizona-California border 155 miles downstream from Hoover Dam. When construction began on Parker Dam in 1934, Arizona Governor Benjamin B. Moeur was so upset that he called out the Arizona National Guard to take possession of the territory around the dam site. He was angry because water stored behind Parker Dam was going to be pumped to cities in fast-growing southern California. Moeur saw it as yet another attempt by California to usurp Arizona’s rightful share of Colorado River water. Disagreement over who owned what rights to the Colorado had come to a head a dozen years earlier when plans were announced for the Boulder Canyon Project, including Hoover Dam and the All-American Canal, which funneled Colorado River water to southern California’s Imperial and Coachella valleys. Other states in the Colorado watershed--Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona--worried that California would leave them in the dust, literally. https://www.nps.gov/articles/california-parker-dam.htm Water war in 1934 halted dam on the Colorado River (https://twitter.com/ampol_moment/status/1510656286228107264): Arizona declared war on California to stop the building of the Colorado River Aqueduct. Members of the Arizona National Guard waiting with machine guns at Parker, Arizona, to stop construction of the Parker Dam. (1934) Political disputes, interstate suspicion and funding concerns have long been a fact of life when it comes to the Colorado River. Those same factors now are delaying a final agreement on how to handle drought in the river basin. But, at least none of the states involved has called out its navy. Arizona did that 85 years ago to prevent completion of Parker Dam, the concrete structure on the Colorado River that backs up Lake Havasu on the border between California and Arizona. More: https://web.archive.org/web/20220403163952/https://apnews.com/article/b1f1a8422cb64a7f9858e3c8a76c4a50 https://t.me/police_frequency/66101