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Who’s Taking America’s Water? | Climate Town

Climate Town · 888.2K views · 2024-08-14 · 39:22

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Overview

A Climate Town episode on who uses America's water, particularly Western water. It looks at agriculture such as alfalfa and animal feed, and at water-rights rules that discourage conservation.

On Hacker News

HN points to it in Colorado River and water-use threads as an accessible explainer of why the Western water shortage keeps getting worse.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2024–2026

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pseudohadamard · 2026-07 · Recommendation

For anyone interested in the background behind this clusterfuck, Climate Town has a good explainer: [VIDEO] . It's not just drought, it's because many of the players involved are required to waste as much water as they can - the video has the details.

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davidklemke · 2025-06 · Recommendation

Climate Town did a great video breaking down where a lot of this ends up, worth the watch if you want some more detailed background on the agreements in place that are leading to this happening: [VIDEO]

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estebank · 2024-08 · Recommendation

If you don't mind the presentation style, [VIDEO] is great presents an even direr situation: because water rights are "use it or lose it", we are actively encouraging water misuse, beyond just "it's cheap enough to misuse it".

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