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RE: Adsactly Education - Colorado River
Future generations are being set up to fail simply because conservation is not given the emphasis it deserves by government officials. It is appalling that California authorities waited so long to implement mandatory water cutbacks, furthermore, building pipelines to capture ocean=bound fresh waters, creating appropriate new reservoirs, reforestation to decrease evaporation, are measures worthy of investment and could help sell water to business users to recoup public investments. Arguing about the problem without offering solutions is a waste of effort. Enough said is the key. We can stop bickering and get to work now, legislators!
Conservation is certainly the short term key. While the long term prognosis is dismal, short term could be helped lots by simply eliminating private grass. No more lawns in the whole basin would result in a huge lift in available water. There are multiple other things like eliminating the export of alfalfa hay. Essentially we are exporting millions of acre feet every year.
Very thoughtful comment.