Water Wars: Early 1900s Land vs Modern Scarcity Fears!

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]You're at the end of the line, and you're like, am I going to have enough water for my my my family livelihood? I And then stories that I've been told that in the early 1900s, lakefront property was the least valuable. It was most of the day job to to to run those ditches because you had you know, divert the water to the ditch, and then you had to walk the ditch to make sure there weren't any gopher holes or or that some a tractor or somebody had plugged them. Damned it up.

[00:00:31]>> Yeah, and you know, so you know, you had to walk every row up twice every row.

[00:00:37]>> Yeah, so you imagine this time of year if the snowpack was low, which it [snorts] wasn't really that back then.

[00:00:42]It was seemed like there was a lot more snow, but growing up, but it had to be stressful.

[00:00:47]Like, if you were at the end of the line, and you're like, am I going to have enough water for my my my family livelihood? I