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UNQUENCHABLE
ROBERT GLENNONMorris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy
University of Arizona
www.rglennon.com
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America’s Water Crisisand
What To Do About It
The Crisis
Real and Surreal Solutions
A New Approach
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“There is no lack of water in the Mojave Desert unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.”
Edward Abbey
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Video Clip
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“Pat, I just have to have a water feature. I just have to. Don’t tell me I can’t do it. Just tell me how to do it.”
Steve Wynn
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“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.”
Benjamin Franklin (1774)
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The Crisis
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Signs of the Crisis Since 2007
• Colorado
• Orme, Tennessee
• Lake Mead
• Bowater Paper Company
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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• California’s Central Valley
• Lake Superior
• Commercial fishing off the coasts of California and Oregon
• Idaho, Arizona and Montana
• Riverside County, California
• Atlanta, Georgia
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“This drought is not particularly different from previous ones.”
Todd RasmussenUniversity of Georgia professor of water resources and hydrology
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Supply and Demand
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Real and Surreal Solutions
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Riddle: Where does water in a river come from if it hasn’t rained recently?
Answer: Groundwater.
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Sinkhole in west-central Florida
caused by groundwater pumping
Sinkhole in west-central Florida
caused by groundwater pumping
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Ipswich River, Massachusetts2003 2005
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“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it.”
Mark Twain
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“Water, water every where,Nor any drop to drink.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Your golden retriever may drink out of the toilet with no ill effects. But that doesn’t mean humans should do the same.”
San Diego Tribune
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“I believe it is our God-given right as Californians to be able to water gardens and lawns.”
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (2004)
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A New Approach
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“Civilized people should be able to dispose of sewage in a better way than by putting it in the drinking water.”
Teddy Roosevelt (1910)
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“The flush toilet is mankind’s single greatest invention.”
Ann Coulter
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Most Americans pay less for water than we do for cell phone service or cable television.
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We’re entering an eraof water reallocation.
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GENEVA STEEL
1. 1,750 acres of prime real estate: $ 46.8 million
2. Steel mills machinery & equipment to Chinese firm: $ 40.0 million
3. Iron ore mine to mining company: $ 10.0 million
4. Pollution reduction credits: $ 4.0 million
TOTAL $100.8 million
5. Water rights: $102.5 million
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The Buffalo’s Lament
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CONCLUSION: BLUEPRINT FOR REFORM• Encouraging creative conservation
• Using price signals
• Creating market incentives
• Reexamining how we dispose of human waste
• Requiring developers to pay their own way
• Reconsidering the location of wastewater plants
• Separating storm water from sewer water
• Creating infrastructure with dual pipes to supply potable and reclaimed water
• Abandoning business as usual (more dams, diversions and wells)
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• Recognizing the link between water and energy
• Appreciating the critical role played by water in the economy
• Removing barriers to water transfers while providing for government oversight of them
• Creating incentives for homeowners and others to harvest water
• Stimulating alternative waste disposal technologies
• Metering water use
• Securing water for the environment
CONCLUSION: BLUEPRINT FOR REFORM