Good morning,
I cane across this video by the name of “Climate Town” months ago. There is a “Prior Appropriation Doctrine” that was created during a time that no one believed that the Colorado River would go dry. The Colorado River supports life across California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Nearly 40 million people would be affected of this wasteful spending of our natural resources continues.
With this “Prior Appropriation Doctrine”, people were forced to be wasteful, for the sake of keeping their water rights. I would like for there to be a revision on current water usage, as well as the REAL need for the crops being grown in the desert.
I know my questions will have a great impact farmers across the U.S., but i hope to help us all.
What is the most amount of water that could be used by any one farmer family/per acre can use without being wasteful?
What are the pros and cons for nature if we keep this current water spending?
What can we do now to reserve the water we have while we refill our reservoirs?
-Can we create reservoirs? (humans, land, and nature in mind)
What is the cost to refilling our water supplies?
Who can we cut off without giving out monopolies?
I extremely suggest you look at the video.
Sources:
“Who’s Taking America’s Water | Climate Town”. Climate Town. AUG 14, 2024 https://youtu.be/XusyNT_k-1c?si=gd1UraATGMu96wZ6
Wikupedia.org. Appropriation Water Rights. 2024
Prior-appropriation water rights - Wikipedia