#ColoradoRiverBasin including Arizona, California and Nevada
Ag/ranch/dairy take most of the water (OK, we need to eat)
Take most of the water to use most for alfalfa, dairy, cattle
Maybe that was workable back in the day, but in this era of climate emergency, drought, population increases
Time to rethink, refine, and reform our food chain
If nothing is done we are going to have a water crisis in the Southwest of civilization threatening proportions—

by #LyricAquino in @grist:

"The decision leaves water infrastructure for the Navajo Nation on unsure ground, and could reverberate along the Colorado River Basin where 30 tribal nations rely on the river’s water supply. Of those 30 tribes, 12 of them, including the Navajo Nation still have 'unresolved' rights, meaning the extent of their rightful claims to water have not been agreed upon."

https://grist.org/indigenous/supreme-court-leaves-navajo-nation-high-and-dry/

#Navajo #ColoradoRiverBasin #water #pollution #environment #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Grist

Watch the documentary "Colorado Problem" on CuriosityStream channel. Among other things I was frustrated about --
1. Southwest saying animal farming is their way of life and they want to continue that way. It utterly unscientific.
2. Artificial sprawl of urban and suburban population in the desert is a fundamentally wrong idea.
3. What happened to desalination where it is possible? Like California.
#ColoradoRiverBasin

The Lower #ColoradoRiverBasin proposal: Pay us a billion dollars or we'll drive the bus into a ditch: https://www.inkstain.net/2023/05/deadpool-diaries-nice-river-basin-ya-got-there/

Water from #ColoradoRiverBasin is a huge deal
Reducing agricultural misuse of water to grow alfalfa in Southwest
This is the five alarm fire of misguided policy
It is existential, it is part of our #climateEmergencey
It is everything to do with #energytransition
And the silence is deafening
But this is what is missing from the headlines
It is the water elephant in the room…

#ColoradoRiverBasin
From bridge in Parker, AZ
Friday noon April 28, 2023
Most of this water goes to Imperial Valley Irrigation District
Most of it used to water alfalfa… destined for milk cows and slaughter cattle
Dept. Of Ag, Bureau of Reclamation, all failing to lead…

Tune in tomorrow, April 18 at 1pm MT for NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)'s April Southwest #Drought Briefing! This webinar will highlight the spring runoff and streamflow forecasts for the #ColoradoRiverBasin.
https://www.drought.gov/events/april-2023-southwest-drought-briefing-2023-04-18

#California is entering three years of its driest conditions, the longest amount of #drought since records began. Roger Bales, a professor at UC Merced who specializes in #water and #climate research, expects that it will take two years of persisting rainfall to replenish California, and a decade or more to refresh the #ColoradoRiverBasin, which seven states rely on for water, as well as #Mexico. Read more: https://www.isciences.com/blog/2023/02/24/united-states-pockets-of-surplus-expected-in-sw-states

#XC #ski with my boys in our backyard: Exactly how I want to spend a day when 23” of #snow hits #DurangoCO 🙌🏽 #AtmosphericRiver #ColoradoRiverBasin

The catastrophic chain of events that water and power authorities are working to prepare for amid the desertification of the Colorado River basin would amount to a "complete doomsday scenario," harming water and electricity supplies for millions, according to new reporting from The Washington Post

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/01/experts-warn-doomsday-scenario-colorado-river-basin-possible-2023

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate #ColoradoRiverBasin #USA #US

#ColoradoRiverBasin is a seven state stalemate—
We've got plenty of water for residential water users
It's the rural ag community that's going to take it on the chops
The politics stink, instead of making drastic cutbacks they keep praying for rain— this is a major tipping point coming full steam ahead right at the American West