SOLFOX

Water is the New Oil

The only way to save what is left of the Colorado River is that California pursues its infant, very infant desalination projects that would ultimately relieve water shortages all over the western eight states who have experiences long drought years. As it is now, the 1922 River Compact Agreement called Law of the River among these states although its amendments having been signed in Dec of 2007 still does not lay the groundwork needed to control California's thirst for Colorado River water and, indeed, since documented 1998, the Interior Secretary warned and each one thereafter, has warned California to stop overusing its allotment of River water. San Diego even has an agreement with the Imperial Valley that also takes its water from the River to sell it an enormous amount of its water feeding its growing population. This is just moving water from one area to another, all from the same source. The only valid question is how soon is California going to bring desal to fruition and meanwhile, who will control California politicians who have lawlessly taken more than their share of the Colorado River? Apparently, the Interior Secretaries heretofore have not been able to enforce the amended 1922 River Compact Agreement and California has turned the Law of the River into a joke.