Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)'s photos with the keyword: Coace Coachella

On the upper, eastern edge of the basin that forms the Salton Sea, are the Coachella Canal and the Chocolate Mountains. For any who have read my webpages, you'll know that I have many mixed emotions about water and land use policy in the West. Seeing the irrigation of large parts of California (or any Western state) that are basically arid (less than 3 inches/year in Imperial County) so as to grow water-intensive crops seems exceedingly wasteful. But I temper the consequent frustration with the realization that the history of mankind has been one of tinkering with water in very improbable locations (e.g., Egypt and the Nile).