Michael Cohen is a Senior Associate with the Pacific Institute, where his work focuses on water use in the Colorado River basin and the management and revitalization of the Salton Sea ecosystem.
People walk by a formerly sunken boat standing upright into the air with its stern buried in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev.But just pointing to drought misses the fundamental problem: the rules governing Colorado River use give away more water than flowed down the river even in the wetter 20th century.
Last June, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton, the federal official charged with managing the river,, urging users to cut their water use by as much as one-third—on top of existing reductions—starting this year.
There is no climate crisis. Local problems need local solutions:
Rebuild reservoirs.
It’s called a drought. They’ve been happening for thousands of years.
Guess its too late to save the Sahara Forest from Global warming? At least they found Atlantis.
Stop shipping all the water to the celebs in california....
The crisis is not building enough wells . Stop sharing the same water source just to gouge the citizenry