The Gen Z Water Dealmaker: Part 3
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
JB Hamby and the other lead negotiators on the Colorado River have to come up with a long term solution to manage the river in the face of climate change. Will they reach a deal before it’s too late?
LAist correspondent Emily Guerin examines how JB's position on water has dramatically evolved since he first won office a few years ago. She brings us back to the current water negotiations as the conflict between the Upper and Lower Basins becomes very public, and JB struggles to convince Imperial Valley farmers that they need to cut back.
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| 0:33.9 | I'm Antonio Serejido. You're listening to Imperfect Paradise from LA's Studios, the show about |
| 0:39.7 | hidden worlds and messy realities. Last time on Imperfect Paradise, the Gen Z water deal maker, |
| 0:46.3 | how 28-year-old J.B. Hamby became California's youngest lead negotiator ever on the Colorado |
| 0:52.6 | River. |
| 0:53.7 | I find it unpleasant to feel like I'm not being purposeful and I'm not accomplishing something. |
| 1:01.0 | Like that bothers me. |
| 1:03.0 | In this episode, how did J.B. go from Mr. Let's Keep the Water Here in the Imperial Valley? |
| 1:09.0 | Quote, the fact is, is that we are here first. |
| 1:12.3 | We established a right to this. |
| 1:14.1 | To Mr. Everyone needs to cut back our water usage. |
| 1:18.1 | There is no user, no state, no country, no basin that can stand up and say, we're out. |
| 1:26.3 | This is a basin-wide problem, but we're not part of it. |
| 1:30.7 | And we jump back into the current negotiations between the seven states over who should cut back |
| 1:36.1 | their water usage and by how much. Will the negotiators be able to reach a deal by the March |
| 1:41.8 | deadline? If Lake Mead reaches Deadpool, California, Arizona, and Mexico will be cut off entirely because |
| 1:49.4 | water simply can't escape from Lake Mead. |
| 1:51.6 | We can't do this the way that we're doing it anymore. |
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