Water rights are at the heart of protecting the Colorado River | FT Climate Capital
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2023
- The Colorado River Valley, the Grand Canyon equivalent of waterways in the US, is drying up amid the fighting for, and trading of water rights. Numerous players are involved, but as the FT’s Aime Williams explains, driving a deal where everyone agrees to cuts is complicated
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8 minutes at 480p? Wtf?
LOL, wen't down to comments to write the same thoughts as soon as the video started and saw this comment!
Built cities in the middle of places where rainfall is highly seasonal and dependent on weather patterns. Blames climate change instead of stupid water use efforts. -_-
Build nuclear power stations, have them run 24 hours a day to power desalination plants on the coasts, pump that water upstream to the Colorado basin and reintroduce more freshwater to the river system or, better yet, rehydrate the underground aquifers in the region.
are you seriously suggesting building cities has reduced the total amount of rainfall 🤡
you also massively underestimate the energy intensity of desalination and pumping large amounts of water...
Excellent report. TY FT.
The idea that needs to change is the law of prior appropriation, which ignores wide variation in precipitation over the years, variation not seen by those who wrote and passed that law. Conversion to law of the commons is essential, lest this turmoil continue.
Especially because prior appropriation started out as a mining law during the California gold rush. It's not something that should dictate an agricultural system of water use.
When someone got many reservoirs in the downstream then there are no complaints on the Upstream.
In the end, the Federal government will have to control distributions across both the Upper and Lower Basins to enforce a fair and logical system. Prior Appropriation clearly doesn't work when there is a severe, multi-year drought in the Southwest.
If California's outtake of water were to equal its input to the Colorado water system there would be no more salad bars in restaurants in America.
Intern forget to export at 1080p?
This shortage turmoil is the result of water privatisation and private interests, be it big ag, big tech or big pharma.
I remember when i was stationed out in the Mojave we got water from the Colorado, great water.
I’m really surprised that a) regenerative agriculture, b) permaculture, c) beaver dam analogues and d) beavers 🦫 were not mentioned as ways to retain more water in the Colorado basin. Why w weren’t these methods mentioned? Confused 🫤
Very interesting... It will be tricky to resolve the water rights issue for a river that traverses four states, but Americans are up to the task!
Please re-upload the video in proper resolution.
thank you, now in 1080 it is much easier to see the detail in the video
We got this problem here in america also
I thought it was a summary of the book "water knife" from Paolo Bacigalupi. But, not at all, it is real. Good luck folks 😱
480p?!
Imminent domain?
This isn’t that difficult… introduce massive beaver populations to the watershed and let them go to work. They will create natural wetlands that refill underground aquifers, limit forest fire destruction, and improve biodiversity which creates a ripple effect downstream.
the amount of water being consumed is more than is physically available...
beavers are wonderful but they're not magic.
Going back to native crops can help stopping the insane amounts of water going to agriculture can help.
Making it illegal to have monoculture will help as well.
Make them add trees to the open never used corners to help reduce wind damage and reduce evaporaten from the plants and soil reducing the amount of water used even more.
Oh ya i forgot cut California off completely and if not cut them 50% or more and that should help.
Yes i understand California grows like 90% of the world's food for some god unknown reasons oh right greed.
We should go back to old time but with today's knowledge and have lots of small farms and not a few massive farms to provide for people.
in 480p? TF
Why don't they divert the water of some of the rivers in east of USA to the west of the country?
because america... is large...
@@afgor1088 Those rivers are large too, plus the starting point of Mississippi is in northwest