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An article in today's 4/25/12 Huffington Post continues the discussion about water rights re: Hoover Dam and Climate Change. "Las Vegas Water Permits Appeals Filed by Environmental Groups, Indian Tribes," discusses one of the effects of reduced water levels in Lake Mead. Basically, Las Vegas wants to supplement its lower water levels with water from rural areas. Everybody has a stake and it is interesting to see different bedfellows and imagine their motivations and behavior. Aside from the two groups mentioned above, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and people in rural counties in Nevada and Utah, have filed.
Simeon Herskovits, attorney for the Great Basin Water Network, argued that the series of rulings sanction "unsustainable water exports"
and "improperly rely on a woefully inadequate monitoring and mitigation plan as a substitute for ensuring that the project will not cause impermissible harms."
Here in Chicago, because we are on Lake Michigan, one of the largest sources for fresh water in the world, our issues surrounding water rights differ from Vegas. But it's the same players ultimately. And Big Business has Big Pocketbooks...
Simeon Herskovits, attorney for the Great Basin Water Network, argued that the series of rulings sanction "unsustainable water exports" and "improperly rely on a woefully inadequate monitoring and mitigation plan as a substitute for ensuring that the project will not cause impermissible harms." 
2 comments:
Water is going to be one of the most contentious commodities in the world in coming years. In the US it's the dry west, in the Middle East it's the dams in Turkey that prevent water from flowing south into neighboring countries. It's going to be a mess.
(sorry to hear about the hacking)
Thanks Altoon. I did not know about Turkey.
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