This empharically isn't a tragedy of the commons situation. Your link starts: > In economic science, the tragedy of the commons is a situation in which individ

This empharically isn't a tragedy of the commons situation. Your link starts: > In economic science, the tragedy of the commons is a situation in which individual users, who have open access to a resource unhampered by shared social structures or formal rules that govern access and use,[1][2] act independently according to their own self-interest and, contrary to the common good of all users, cause depletion of the resource through their uncoordinated action Note the unhampered by shared social structures or formal rules that govern access and use? The formal rules which govern access and use were put into place 100 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact > The Colorado River Compact is a 1922 agreement among seven U.S. states in the basin of the Colorado River in the American Southwest governing the allocation of the water rights to the river's water among the parties of the interstate compact.