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This isn't a "prolonged drought;" this is normal. It's the weirdly wet period a century or so ago that was the outlier!
The real problem here is that all the engineering and legal agreements governing who gets access to how much water was fundamentally built on a fantasy.
Not just fantasy. It was determined on gallons instead of some percentage of the water flowing. Nature doesn’t care about how many gallons humans want to divvy up.
Number of gallons of the water flowing during an unusually wet period, making the resulting number a fantasy relative to the amount of water normally available.
Its really not "normal", global warming has caused huge shifts in how snowpack is put down, and how aquafers are (not) being recharged, as well as hotter temps driving a huge change in rainfall patterns, so that vegetation drinks a lot of the snowmelt that would normally make it into the river.
Global warming sure doesn't help, but the Colorado basin was dry AF even before the industrial revolution. IIRC, the Anasazi got fucked over in a similar way.
The account of alfalfa here on the western slope of Colorado is insane considering the decades long drought…
What is alfafa used for there? Animal feed?
Its basically a way to export water internationally, alfalfa takes a huge amount of water to grow, so grow it here where the water laws are basically whoever has money wins, and they ship it out.
Animal feed but a lot of it is exported. It's one of those crops that if it was only produced for internal use wouldn't be so bad but a lot of it is exported while also being exported.
Yes, unsure if it’s staying local though, if I’m remembering articles from a year ago right some of those farms are owned by Saudi Arabia and are shipping it out.
I thought the SC just settled that case? Kinda cool when NM opens up Elephant Butte and the river starts flowing again.