The Pima Canals: A Solution for Modern Water Problems in the Southwest

The Pima Canals: A Solution for Modern Water Problems in the Southwest

As early as the 1600s, Spanish missionaries considered the Pima people in southern Arizona as the gardeners of the dry American Southwest. The Pima used canals dug by their ancestors to water their fields of wheat, corn, beans, and fruit trees. That is, until American settlers upstream diverted the water of the Gila River, which […]

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