Arizona’s rapidly growing technology sphere includes industries like semiconductors, electric vehicles, automated vehicles, batteries, quantum computing and more. But just one of these growing industries can claim a nearly 2000-year history in the state — freshwater science.
Beginning around 100 A.D., the Hohokam people, who farmed and lived in central and southern Arizona, developed one of the world’s most advanced irrigation systems, one that stretched hundreds of miles and supported a thriving…