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America's Water Crisis: Solutions for an Unquenchable Problem

Explore the real and surreal solutions to America's water crisis in this insightful book by Robert Glennon, a leading expert in law and public policy. Discover a new approach to addressing the pressing issue of water scarcity in the United States.

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America's Water Crisis: Solutions for an Unquenchable Problem

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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. “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
  5. “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” Benjamin Franklin (1774)
  6. The Crisis
  7. Signs of the Crisis Since 2007 Colorado Orme, Tennessee Lake Mead Bowater Paper Company Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  8. California’s Central Valley Lake Superior Commercial fishing off the coasts of California and Oregon Idaho, Arizona and Montana Riverside County, California Atlanta, Georgia
  9. “This drought is not particularly different from previous ones.” Todd Rasmussen University of Georgia professor of water resources and hydrology
  10. Supply and Demand
  11. Real and Surreal Solutions
  12. Riddle: Where does water in a river come from if it hasn’t rained recently? Answer: Groundwater.
  13. Sinkhole in west-central Florida caused by groundwater pumping Sinkhole in west-central Florida caused by groundwater pumping
  14. Ipswich River, Massachusetts 2003 2005
  15. “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it.” Mark Twain
  16. “Water, water every where, Nor any drop to drink.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  17. “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
  18. “I believe it is our God-given right as Californians to be able to water gardens and lawns.” U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (2004)

  19. A New Approach

  20. “Civilized people should be able to dispose of sewage in a better way than by putting it in the drinking water.” Teddy Roosevelt (1910)
  21. “The flush toilet is mankind’s single greatest invention.” Ann Coulter
  22. Most Americans pay less for water than we do for cell phone service or cable television.

  23. We’re entering an eraof water reallocation.

  24. 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 $100.8 million 5. Water rights: $102.5 million

  25. The Buffalo’s Lament

  26. CONCLUSION: BLUEPRINT FOR REFORM
  27. “Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.” Carl Sagan
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