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Originally Posted by Camelback
If the Gila River watershed were a state, it would be the 20th largest in the US. It is 60,000 square miles.
Don't forget about "America's Nile" the Colorado River that serves 40 million people, irrigation for 4 million acres of land, 12 billion kWh of hydroelectricity each year and is very much a river of significance on par with a Nile or Euphrates in terms of historical and modern day human settlements.
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Yeah, large drainage, but what's the cubic feet/second flow? Is it near the Nile? or even the Euphrates? The average for the Gila is 247 cfps, the Euphrates is over 12,000, the Nile is near 50,000 in Cairo, which is half what it is leaving Aswan.
So, are you getting the context yet? Mere trickles, compared to the Ohio, Missouri, even the Arkansas, doesn't supply a metro like Phoenix. How is Gila Bend using all that leftover flow? wait....