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America's Water Crisis: Challenges, Solutions, and Innovative Approaches

This insightful overview explores America's growing water crisis, highlighting the alarming signs and surreal realities faced by various regions, from the Mojave Desert to Lake Mead. It discusses past responses and emphasizes a need for innovative solutions such as water harvesting and improved water management practices. The work of Robert Glennon, a legal expert in water policy, underlies the urgency of reassessing our relationship with water, advocating for sustainable and equitable approaches to address water scarcity and environmental challenges in the 21st century.

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America's Water Crisis: Challenges, Solutions, and Innovative Approaches

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  1. UNQUENCHABLE ROBERT GLENNON Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy University of Arizona glennon@law.arizona.edu www.rglennon.com

  2. America’s Water CrisisandWhat To Do About It The Crisis Real and Surreal Solutions A New Approach

  3. “There is no lack of water in the Mojave Desert unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.” Edward Abbey

  4. Bellagio Fountain, Las Vegas

  5. MGM CityCenter, Las Vegas

  6. “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

  7. “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” Benjamin Franklin (1774)

  8. The Crisis

  9. Signs of the Crisis Since 2007 • Colorado • Orme, Tennessee • Lake Mead • Bowater Paper Company • Nuclear Regulatory Commission

  10. California’s Central Valley • Lake Superior • Commercial fishing off the coasts of California and Oregon. • Idaho, Arizona and Montana • Riverside County, California • Atlanta, Georgia

  11. Lake Lanier – Atlanta’s Principal Water Supply

  12. ACF Basin

  13. Snow-Making at Stone Mountain, Georgia

  14. “This drought is not particularly different from previous ones.” Todd Rasmussen University of Georgia professor of water resources and hydrology

  15. Kohler Waterhaven Shower Tower

  16. Jennifer Aniston Smartwater Ad

  17. Map of Ethanol Plants

  18. Google Server Farm

  19. Intel Graph

  20. Real and Surreal Solutions

  21. “The United States has built, on average, one large dam a day, every single day, since the Declaration of Independence.” Bruce Babbitt former Secretary of the Interior

  22. Ogallala Aquifer Groundwater Declines 1950-2005

  23. Earth Fissure, Arizona - 2005

  24. San Joaquin Valley California

  25. Sinkhole in west-central Florida caused by groundwater pumping Sinkhole in west-central Florida caused by groundwater pumping

  26. Riddle: Where does water in a river come from if it hasn’t rained recently? Answer: Groundwater.

  27. Santa Cruz River, Tucson, AZ 1942 2001

  28. Ipswich River, Massachusetts 2003 2005

  29. Aaron Million’s Proposed Pipeline

  30. “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it.” Mark Twain

  31. “Water, water every where, Nor any drop to drink.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  32. Yuma Desalting Plant Region

  33. “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

  34. “I believe it is our God-given right as Californians to be able to water gardens and lawns.” U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (2004)

  35. Water Harvesting Silo

  36. A New Approach

  37. “Civilized people should be able to dispose of sewage in a better way than by putting it in the drinking water.” Teddy Roosevelt (1910)

  38. “The flush toilet is mankind’s single greatest invention.” Ann Coulter

  39. “It is scarcity and plenty that make the vulgar take things to be precious or worthless; they call a diamond very beautiful because it is like pure water, and then would not exchange one for ten barrels of water.” Galileo Galilei (1632)

  40. We’re entering an eraof water reallocation.

  41. Geneva Steel - 1942

  42. GENEVA STEEL • 1,750 acres of prime real estate: $ 46.8 million • Steel mills machinery & equipment to Chinese firm: $ 40.0 million • Iron ore mine to mining company: $ 10.0 million • Pollution reduction credits: $ 4.0 million TOTAL $101.8 million 5. Water rights: $102.5 million

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