As the Colorado River runs low on water, 7 states fight over how to share it

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🗓️ 16 December 2024

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Negotiations have stalled among seven states trying to reach a deal on how to use a dwindling supply of water from the Colorado River. Arizona State University's Kathryn Sorenson tells us what's at stake. And, we look into President Biden's wave of commutations and pardons with University of St. Thomas School of Law professor Mark Osler. Then, for an 18-year-old in Gaza, keeping up his workout routine is one of the ways he copes with war in his homeland. Mohammed Hatem joins us to share how exercise provides solace.

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0:34.3	We need to plan as if climate change is going to diminish the flows of the river. Fundamentally,
0:39.9	we are looking at a river that, you know, likely will not give as much water as it has in the past.
0:45.4	Like the Colorado River itself, negotiations over water rights in the West are drying up.
1:00.9	Music the West are drying up. It's Monday, December 16th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBOR.
1:06.4	I'm Chris Bentley.
1:10.3	Today on the show, President Biden's clemencies from The Righteous to the ones that even
1:16.5	members of his own party say make no sense at all.
1:20.5	Also, how a self-described Jim Rat in Gaza works out in a war zone.
1:26.6	And why his makeshift bodybuilding routines are about more than getting jacked.
1:31.4	No matter how hard your situation is, no matter how hard the circumstances you're going through
1:35.9	are, you always have the chance to keep going with your journey and to keep following
1:41.7	your dreams and fashions.
1:46.0	But first, the Colorado River sustains 40 million people in the West,
1:51.8	nourishing farms and making it possible for cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix to exist, as we know
1:57.7	them today. No wonder, negotiators from the seven states that use Colorado River
2:02.2	Water are struggling to reach a deal on how to share that water when there's increasingly
2:07.2	less of it to go around. Catherine Sorensen has been following the talks. She runs a water policy
2:13.7	center at Arizona State University and was once director of water services for the
2:18.3	City of Phoenix, she told fellow Phoenician Peter O'Dowd, the backdrop for the negotiations
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