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The United States made a lot of vast vast vast promises to farmers ~100 years ago they could have oodles of free water in perpetuity & the legal system believes
by rektide 5y ago
The United States made a lot of vast vast vast promises to farmers ~100 years ago they could have oodles of free water in perpetuity & the legal system believes there is no way to ever take back these rights short of paying these users-of-natural-rights dump truck loads of money forever to stop.
(other posters call this calamity by it's legal name, "water rights".)
- rektide 5y ago*users-of-natural-resources, oops
- DubiousPusher 5y agoThe devil collects on his end of the Faustian Bargain that was manifest destiny. The American system turns out to be a system for making convenient choices and not wise ones.