Originally Posted by deltav

As others have implied, the drought is "man made" - regardless of one's opinions on global warming - because we have unsustainably large populations in arid areas of the SW and SoCal that have to drain water from other sources to meet their needs. And these places are just getting bigger. Phoenix, LA, keep just guzzling water until the fucking Colorado River no longer reaches the sea. The list goes on. We simply turn a blind eye to the ways we pillage our surroundings and mortgage the future for immediate convenience, it's pretty fucked up.

There's simply no reason Phoenix should have 4 million plus inhabitants, to say nothing of the fucking green golf courses and lawns. People are dumb.