Brandon Loomis
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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California actually has stepped up and said, you know, we'll take our share earlier than that priority would call for.
I'll take the second part first.
On a national level, most of this water goes to farms.
In Southwest Arizona, we grow a lot of vegetables, salad greens, and so on.
Southern California, likewise.
Also a lot of animal feed for beef, for dairy production.
So the big, I guess, nationwide concern would be those prices would go up for those commodities if there's less of it to go around from the big production that happens here.
On the local level, it's sort of it's hard to say exactly what will happen.
In the shorter term, if we assume that the lower basin plan is what we get for the next couple of years, we probably won't see a big change in, for instance, in Phoenix, where I live.
Interestingly, the city and others in Arizona over the years since the mid 1990s have been taking Colorado water that they didn't need, but that they were entitled to and putting it in the ground.
So there's going to be an effort now to start retrieving some of that.
And that should be good to sort of backfill the supply for some years.
It's not the only water we use for the city of Phoenix that accounts for something like 40 percent of the supply.
But again, a lot of that has gone into the ground rather than into people's homes.
So there'll be some adaptations that happen before we face.
real scarcity, I guess.
But if we do continue to have bad winters and things get worse and these larger cuts come under this framework, yeah, you could imagine that things would start to change, that our cities, you know, drought emergency plans could be rewritten to have bigger restrictions.
And that might look like something like what Las Vegas does because Las Vegas has a smaller supply that comes directly out of Lake Mead that's at risk.
they've been kind of a leader in basically water policing.
If you have a lawn, for instance, well, first of all, they sort of banned new lawns if they're not functional, what they call functional turf, where kids might actually play on them or something.
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