AaronDec 25, 2022

A how-to on doing #Water #ResourceManagement as badly as possible.

"Kevin Rein, who oversees water rights, made a similar sentiment clear to the Colorado River District board last July. “There’s nothing telling me that I should encourage people to conserve,” Rein said. “It’s a public resource. It’s a property right. It’s part of our economy.” "

And that right there is how the colonizer always destroys the Earth.

A cautionary tale future generations.

#Environment

https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-river-water-uncompahgre-california-arizona

A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River

Diminished by climate change and overuse, the river can no longer provide the water states try to take from it.

ProPublica
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The Baffler did a great article on this #Water #ResourceManagement issue & the wild history around it last year.

The piece points out that the calculation for how much water flows through the Colorado river is enormously off, by "a difference of just under two trillion gallons of water, or roughly the amount New York City uses in six years." (overestimates by over 37%)

This has been widely known since 1953, but the correct calculations have been ignored.

#Environment

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dead-pools-webb

Dead Pools | Zachariah Webb

The signatories of the Colorado River Compact must finally reckon with the shoddy accounting on which they’ve built paradise.

The Baffler
Dec 25, 2022 at 8:25pmWeb