Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bob again. So today we are going to talk a little bit more about the Colorado River and how that is impacting things out west with the droughts.

One of the most recent developments has been Nevada calling on states

in the upper basin of the Colorado River to cut like half a million

acre feet of water usage and that are in lies the problem, really, the way of thinking about the current

situation because that's how states are viewing it.

They're viewing it as a numbers game and well if we can just cut usage here and

cut usage here and cut usage here we'll get a little bit further with it.

That's not a solution. That is not a

solution. The states have to come together and come up with a sustainable water management plan.

A lot more reuse, a lot more reclamation,

a lot less reliance on the Colorado River. Right now their focus is how to divide up the cuts

and just make it through in the short term because they're still operating under

the assumption that this isn't going to be a new normal. I'm pretty sure they're wrong.

There are measures being taken to make sure that certain areas like the tribes have water.

But for the most part, the states, they're not getting anywhere.

All they're doing is trying to manage the cuts.

That's it.

That's not a long-term solution. It's not even a short-term solution, really. This is going to be something that has to occur and it's this river basin that gets to set the tone for what happens

because this isn't going to be the last time resources like this become scarce.

The state... like this becomes scarce. The states have to develop a system for working these issues out and it can't be ad hoc can't be on the fly.

If the states don't work this out, the federal government absolutely will step in and take control over all of this

management. It'll occur. You know there are articles talking about how people in Arizona and Nevada are worried about

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