Yep, there a a bunch of rich people enclaves in the desert where they use their leverage to avoid accountability for wasting the most of this and other valuable

Yep, there a a bunch of rich people enclaves in the desert where they use their leverage to avoid accountability for wasting the most of this and other valuable community resources. In particular too many huge artificial lakes that werent designed to catpure runoff well so only replinishing from Hoover pipes brings them up to level. Water usage restrictions for normals but none enforced on companies and the rich, on top of all the normal problems, build up to a stark conclusion: we cannot sustain population growth in Hoover dependent communities with current societal usage rates. On a different note, I always appreciated the teaching from the local tribes about how being the source of these waters (multiple headwaters on west side of continental divide) was considered not just a privledge but even more important a responsibilty. Every thing you do upstream impacts tons of peoples downstream.