![]() Powell’s warning was clearly not what champions of Western agriculture wanted to hear. ![]() “Gentlemen,” he told the delegates in the Grand Opera House, “there is not sufficient water to supply these lands.” The gentlemen responded by booing the esteemed explorer off the stage. Thus the reaction when John Wesley Powell rose and delivered his now-famous caveat about the limits of development in the region. ![]() The gathering, after all, was meant to encourage reclamation of arid lands throughout the American West, using irrigation to transform an immense wasteland into an agriculturally productive cornucopia. When delegates to the second International Irrigation Congress convened in Los Angeles in October 1893, pessimism about their mission was not supposed to be on the agenda. THE DREAMT LAND Chasing Water and Dust Across California By Mark Arax
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