Watersheds West: Gather at the River

In this episode we take a long view of water in the West, a region defined by its aridity, and consider how humans have interacted with water over the past two centuries, from Indigenous cosmologies to American conquest and the aggressive commodification of water. To see images related to this episode, please visit dornsife.usc.edu/icw. Western Edition is hosted by William Deverell and produced by Avishay Artsy, Katie Dunham, Eryn Hoffman, Jessica Kim, and Elizabeth Logan. Western Edition is a production of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

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Watersheds West: Gather at the River is an episode from Western Edition by William Deverell.

This episode is 35:02 long.

This episode was published on Jan 20, 2026.

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