Brandon Loomis
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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You just don't plant grass that's ornamental.
But then if you are watering, they'll give you certain days and times for a certain amount of time that you can water.
And when they come around patrolling, if they see any water leaking off onto the street, you can get ticketed.
So in Arizona, we're not quite there, but the state water authorities have over the last few years started to say, you know, we probably should be in the near future.
So I think you could see something like that happening.
goes back to something called the law of the river, which is a more than 100-year-old sort of evolving system of how we share this river.
And basically, the compact that was written and agreed to by the seven states
in 1922 split us into two basins.
The upper basin is Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico.
And they were supposed to be entitled to half of the river.
So 7.5 million acre feet was what we thought in those days.
They've never developed quite all that water, so the lower basin uses more.
That's point number one.
If you're going to cut back, you should go where the water is being used, is the argument.
But they do use substantial water, and maybe more to the point, they don't have these big reservoirs above them.
They have basically snow in the mountains.
They do have some smaller reservoirs, but...
they rely on what comes every year in the snowpack and so their argument is hey you know when there's not enough snow above a ranch for instance that rancher's ditch has to go dry and so they're already taking a cut even if it's not mandated by the government
The lower basin says, yes, that's fine, but you're cutting off one rancher so that the next one, say within Colorado, can use that water.
It doesn't lead to more water getting downstream to the lower basin where the lower basin has also promised its 7.5 million acre feet.
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