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If Senator Hickenlooper really wanted to address the predicted drought
and strain on states depending on water from the Colorado River, he
would address illegal immigration, legal immigration, and the obvious
fact that overpopulation is the main reason Lake Powell and Lake Mead
are nearing "dead pool" status where the Colorado River can no longer
provide water to run turbines providing electricity and water for
irrigation to farmers and for cities like Las Vegas and San Diego.
Remigration and mass deportation of illegal aliens would go a long way
to reducing the strain on the Colorado River.
Here's Senator Hickenlooper's message to his constituents:
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The Colorado River Crisis
Senator John Hickenlooper
Aug 21
Here in Colorado, we’re all too familiar with the extreme drought
threatening the Colorado River and the 40 million people who rely on it.
Our water levels are approaching historic lows.¹ We’re facing the worst drought in 1,200 years!²
If we don’t act now, there’s a real risk that Lake Powell or Lake Mead could hit “dead pool” levels, where water can no longer flow downstream
to the communities and farms that depend on it or be used to generate hydropower.³ That’s not a distant threat. This year, Lake Powell is
expected to get half of its average inflow.⁴
This isn’t a tomorrow problem.
Every state in the Colorado River Basin is feeling the strain. People in
rural areas and big cities alike are worried about what less water in
the river means for their future. Many of the Basin’s 30 Tribes — who
hold rights to 25 percent of the river’s flows — have never gotten the chance to fully develop their water, and now face yet another challenge
in accessing their supplies.
As governor, we created Colorado’s first Water Plan and brought folks together from across the state – urban and rural – to better conserve
our water and to prepare for exactly this kind of challenge. We need to
come together again and address this head on.
We don’t have time to waste fighting over less and less water while the
river runs dry. We must work together to confront this challenge, not
risk taking it to the courts where we could all lose. There’s no real solution to this crisis without all seven states – Arizona, Nevada,
Utah, New Mexico, California, Wyoming, and Colorado – working together.
We can’t keep fighting state vs state, Upper Basin vs Lower Basin, while
we hope for more water that isn’t coming. Our communities, tribes,
farms, and economies depend on all of us working together toward a solution.
That’s why in the Senate, we’re focused on solutions that’ll support Colorado and the other Basin States to manage our drier reality well
into the future.
This week, I joined the Colorado Water Congress’ summer meeting in
Steamboat Springs to talk about the crisis and the work we’re doing to
help states and local communities before it’s too late.
Back in 2023, I started convening⁵ regular meetings with senators from
the Colorado River Basin states to figure out the best use of our
resources and help push towards a seven-state solution. We use these
meetings as a forum for discussion – across party lines and basin
boundaries – to identify opportunities to support our states, now and in
the future.⁶
I also fought for $12 billion in federal funding for western water,
including $4 billion from our historic Inflation Reduction Act for
drought management in the Colorado River Basin. That funding has already delivered millions for Colorado projects that’ll help communities better measure, conserve, and manage water.
But recently, the Trump administration froze nearly $150 million in
federal funding for 15 Colorado water projects.⁷ We led the Colorado congressional delegation in calling on the admin to release the
funding⁸, and we will keep pressing them until those dollars reach the communities they were promised to.
We’re fighting for legislation like our bill to extend the System Conservation Pilot Program, which supports voluntary water conservation projects to better manage drought on the Colorado River, through 2026
and voted it out of the Senate⁹. We’ve also introduced bipartisan legislation¹⁰ to help better predict and measure water in the West – because you can’t manage what you can’t measure.¹¹
We need to continue pushing ahead. 2026 is a big year for the Colorado
River. That’s when the current rules governing water use expire, and
we’ll need a new agreement that meets this moment.
I believe it can be done. Right now, our states are working to hash out
a plan under the constraints of a river that simply has less water to go
around than it used to.
How we come together today to tackle this problem will determine whether
our kids inherit a river that continues to support life in the West or a
legacy of litigation and uncertainty.
We can do this together.
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First we will destroy your identity. Then we will teach you your past
was evil. You will conclude yourself that your inheritance, your
homeland, your ancestors and your people are underserving of it all.
Then we will complete your dispossession and dissolve you into the final
phase of the Kalergi Plan.
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