Lake Mead is almost gone

[NiceAft]

As I said; “the river has been suffering for years”, regardless of where it originates.

I have a son in Arizona. I asked hm what are the people doing about their water supply? Everyone seems to have a swimming pool. He says Arizonians are not going to give up their pools.

And what happens to Arizona pool owners when Colorado turns off the spigot?

Colorado has grown immensely over the past 20 years. A good portion of the water they use comes from the Upper and Lower Dawson. The Upper Dawson has been under stress for years now and no one wants drinking water from the lower Dawson. The smell is god awful.

There is a reason water is called White Gold in that state. I owned 200 acres of land that came with both mineral and water rights. For over 10 years the state would try to take the water rights back with every kind of trickery under the sun.

It finally ended when I went to the local paper and announced I would begin removing the cattle and horses off the property and building bogs for growing cranberries.

My land was in an unincorporated area of town. If I went through with the plan, it would have caused water shortages within the town limits.

The cows and horses lived happily ever after.