Phil Stevens :tinoflag: on Nostr: I left Tucson over two decades ago because I could no longer be part of the problem: ...

I left Tucson over two decades ago because I could no longer be part of the problem: too many people in a desert that had made itself reliant on an unreliable water source. I saw the writing on the wall and did not believe that the CAP was the great saviour that its business and political boosters had sold to us.

But in fairness, cities and their demand are only a drop in the bucket. Agriculture has always used the lion's share of the Colorado River and enjoys a superprivileged status in terms of water rights thanks to arcane laws and unscientific accounting. Political inability to confront the entrenched irrigation cabal is forcing this crisis and making it far worse than it needs to be. 1/n

#ColoradoRiver #ClimateBreakdown