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UNQUENCHABLE
ROBERT GLENNONMorris K. Udall Professor of Law
and Public PolicyUniversity of Arizona
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America’s Water Crisisand
What To Do About It
The Crisis
Real and Surreal Solutions
A New Approach
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“There is no lack of water in the Mojave Desert unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.”
Edward Abbey
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“Pat, I just have to have a water feature. I just have to. Don’t tell me I can’t do it. Just tell me how to do it.”
Steve Wynn
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“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.”
Benjamin Franklin (1774)
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The Crisis
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Signs of the Crisis Since 2007
• Colorado• Orme, Tennessee• Lake Mead• Bowater Paper Company• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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• California’s Central Valley• Lake Superior• Commercial fishing off the coasts of California
and Oregon• Idaho, Arizona and Montana• Riverside County, California• Atlanta, Georgia
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“This drought is not particularly different from previous ones.”
Todd RasmussenUniversity of Georgia professor of water resources and hydrology
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Supply and Demand
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Real and Surreal Solutions
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Riddle: Where does water in a river come from if it hasn’t rained recently?
Answer: Groundwater.
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Sinkhole in west-central Florida caused by groundwater pumping
Sinkhole in west-central Florida caused by groundwater pumping
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Ipswich River, Massachusetts2003 2005
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“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it.”
Mark Twain
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“Water, water every where,Nor any drop to drink.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Your golden retriever may drink out of the toilet with no ill effects. But that doesn’t mean humans should do the same.”
San Diego Tribune
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“I believe it is our God-given right as Californians to be able to water gardens and lawns.”
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (2004)
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A New Approach
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“Civilized people should be able to dispose of sewage in a better way than by putting it in the drinking water.”
Teddy Roosevelt (1910)
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“The flush toilet is mankind’s single greatest invention.”
Ann Coulter
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Most Americans pay less for water than we do for cell phone service or cable television.
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We’re entering an eraof water reallocation.
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GENEVA STEEL
1. 1,750 acres of prime real estate: $ 46.8 million2. Steel mills machinery & equipment to Chinese firm:
$ 40.0 million
3. Iron ore mine to mining company: $ 10.0 million4. Pollution reduction credits: $ 4.0 million
TOTAL $100.8 million
5. Water rights: $102.5 million
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The Buffalo’s Lament
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CONCLUSION: BLUEPRINT FOR REFORM
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“Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.”
Carl Sagan