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DelRider

@anne_twain @gerrymcgovern Water rights in the US are regionally determined and can be really strange. It's not always a public resource. Some laws are even "hands tied" by agreements made a hundred, or more, years ago. Check out the documentary "Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008)" to see how corporations are trying to lay claim to "public" resources. It's really amazing the noose people will willingly put their own necks into.

4 April at 13:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.vivaldi.net
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Lewis Cowles

@DelRider @anne_twain @gerrymcgovern
Also, check out:

Mos Def "New World Water (1999)"

Some people have known about this for quarter of a century, and even published popular music about it.

That's not to say there is nothing to be done, but it's probably more pitchforks and molotovs at this point than polite discussion.

5 April at 3:04 | Open on phpc.social
marnanel

@DelRider @anne_twain @gerrymcgovern I was shocked to learn that the Colorado River doesn't reach the sea any more
6 April at 13:36 | Open on queer.party
Bryan Beauseigneur ⎇🦀⎇

@marnanel
The 1900s called looking for you 😉. I'm not sure when but I think it's been many decades.
@DelRider @anne_twain @gerrymcgovern

11 April at 20:49 | Open on discuss.systems
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@RustedComputing @marnanel @DelRider @anne_twain @gerrymcgovern
mmm, this is mostly the fault of meat-eaters, as 3/4 of all crops grown go to feeding livestock

california's almond boom has made the problem even worse though, as almonds are a horribly wasteful crop no one should eat ever, and city infrastructure also matters to some extent (e.g. phoenix uses the same amount of water today as it did in the 1970s, while los angeles has hardly even tried

see https://onthepublicrecord.org/ for a nice resource
@RustedComputing @marnanel @DelRider @anne_twain @gerrymcgovern
mmm, this is mostly the fault of meat-eaters, as 3/4 of all crops grown go to feeding livestock

16 April at 16:42 | Open on tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu
Harris👍Trump👎

@DelRider @anne_twain @gerrymcgovern

Took a class on (US) water rights in grad school. Fascinating. "Riparian" generally east of ~100° W and "prior appropriation" (that's the "agreements made > 100 years ago thing") to the west. First Nations areas have different rules as does Hawai'i.

15 April at 20:20 | Open on mastodon.radio
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