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Episode 117: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Convening with the Ancients

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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The History of Phoenix's Ancient Canal System

In 1450 AD, the Ho-Hokum people built a series of canals to funnel just seven inches of annual rain to 100,000 acres of farmland. The amount of collective work that it took to keep up 180 miles of canals in the region is quite amazing. "There's so much to learn from history," he says.

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