Historian Jim Turner will discuss water use from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to prehistoric irrigation canals; modern Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming to present-day American farmers; and major water use legislation over more than three centuries, as Arizonans developed methods to survive our region’s harsh climate.

This program is provided in partnership with Arizona Humanities.

This program  is supported by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.