8 minutes at 480p? Wtf?

Built cities in the middle of places where rainfall is highly seasonal and dependent on weather patterns. Blames climate change instead of stupid water use efforts. -_- Build nuclear power stations, have them run 24 hours a day to power desalination plants on the coasts, pump that water upstream to the Colorado basin and reintroduce more freshwater to the river system or, better yet, rehydrate the underground aquifers in the region.

Excellent report. TY FT.

The idea that needs to change is the law of prior appropriation, which ignores wide variation in precipitation over the years, variation not seen by those who wrote and passed that law. Conversion to law of the commons is essential, lest this turmoil continue.

Intern forget to export at 1080p?

Get rid of those dams!! Let the Colorado river just flow!!!

I remember when i was stationed out in the Mojave we got water from the Colorado, great water.

I’m really surprised that a) regenerative agriculture, b) permaculture, c) beaver dam analogues and d) beavers 🦫 were not mentioned as ways to retain more water in the Colorado basin. Why w weren’t these methods mentioned? Confused 🫤

This shortage turmoil is the result of water privatisation and private interests, be it big ag, big tech or big pharma.

When they built the reservoirs, the river was flowing at an unusually high rate above historic norms, and they knew that. They built the dams anyway because the feds were paying for it and both projects were enormously beneficial to the state's economy and unemployment. They knew the river was running high and that it would slow back to normal, but chose instant gratification ignoring the future problems it would cause. Building enormous cities dependent on the reservoirs was absolutely foolish. My family has been ranching on the banks of the river for 194 years, so don't take our water from us because people think it's a good idea to live in the desert. My Grandpa used to tell us the next civil war will be fought over water, it looks pretty likely he will be right. Denver is the single biggest reason the lakes are empty, it's not the ranchers and their water rights.

When someone got many reservoirs in the downstream then there are no complaints on the Upstream.

Very interesting... It will be tricky to resolve the water rights issue for a river that traverses four states, but Americans are up to the task!

Farming in desert, during drought, bad idea, bad investment... DUH !

If California's outtake of water were to equal its input to the Colorado water system there would be no more salad bars in restaurants in America.

Colorado should not be able to pipe over the continental divide

Going back to native crops can help stopping the insane amounts of water going to agriculture can help. Making it illegal to have monoculture will help as well. Make them add trees to the open never used corners to help reduce wind damage and reduce evaporaten from the plants and soil reducing the amount of water used even more. Oh ya i forgot cut California off completely and if not cut them 50% or more and that should help. Yes i understand California grows like 90% of the world's food for some god unknown reasons oh right greed. We should go back to old time but with today's knowledge and have lots of small farms and not a few massive farms to provide for people.

Please re-upload the video in proper resolution.

Imminent domain?

In the end, the Federal government will have to control distributions across both the Upper and Lower Basins to enforce a fair and logical system. Prior Appropriation clearly doesn't work when there is a severe, multi-year drought in the Southwest.

480p?!

I thought it was a summary of the book "water knife" from Paolo Bacigalupi. But, not at all, it is real. Good luck folks 😱

This isn’t that difficult… introduce massive beaver populations to the watershed and let them go to work. They will create natural wetlands that refill underground aquifers, limit forest fire destruction, and improve biodiversity which creates a ripple effect downstream.

in 480p? TF

We got this problem here in america also

Why don't they divert the water of some of the rivers in east of USA to the west of the country?