Anonymous
Post 08/17/2022 15:09     Subject: Colorado River Crisis

Anonymous wrote:This is a political problem where Western water law incentivizes people to use as much as possible and ag takes all the water to grow water intensive crops.

They couldn’t even get agreement to move the water to a different reservoir which would have reduced evaporation because someone thought they would lose out.

Not saying I am optimistic but the problem is less the amount of water and more how we allocate it.


Not really. I mean yes, it is about allocation. But it is also about the amount of water. A 23 year drought. Water is, even when it rains, not draining back into resevoirs. The ground is parched. They are close to not being able to generate electricity in 2 dams.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2022 12:11     Subject: Colorado River Crisis

This is a political problem where Western water law incentivizes people to use as much as possible and ag takes all the water to grow water intensive crops.

They couldn’t even get agreement to move the water to a different reservoir which would have reduced evaporation because someone thought they would lose out.

Not saying I am optimistic but the problem is less the amount of water and more how we allocate it.
Anonymous
Post 08/17/2022 11:37     Subject: Colorado River Crisis

This is scaring the sh-- out of me. This business of dwindling water supplies and the chaos (and I believe violence, ultimately) that is going to come from that. People need to take this more seriously. This is only the beginning.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/16/colorado-river-bureau-of-reclamation/