What if we started putting more water into the Colorado River basin instead of ratcheting down ever further how much is taken out of it? Increase supply, in other words, instead of futilely trying to curb demand.
As news reports continue to remind us, the Colorado River has been drawn down over the decades by exponential growth in lower-basin states — Arizona, California and Nevada. But rather than brainstorming only how we can limit use of the West’s most precious commodity, how about finding new sources of water to augment rivers like the Colorado?
Generations of conditioning by the environmental movement’s most ardent hand-wringers has left society thinking the only way to sustain scarce resources is to use less — no matter the cost to other human endeavors.
See the full article by Gazette Editorial Board, October 13, 2022