Curious your thinking as to how that relates to the Colorado River Compact's allocation of water [1]. The basis of the compact in 1922 mis-calculated the amount

Curious your thinking as to how that relates to the Colorado River Compact's allocation of water [1]. The basis of the compact in 1922 mis-calculated the amount of water that was actually available to be drawn, and since then the states have found out that this was in fact very inaccurate. In recent renegotiations, this was solved by adding imaginary water onto the books instead of actually figuring out a meaningful solution and confronting reality. I recall the governor of Utah suggesting un-ironically praying for rain. I suspect that this kind of lie is more than just a 'free' vs 'authoritarian' issue, but rather some kind of artifact of human nature. It seems a little bit too easy to attribute this to the 'other' when there's plenty of examples at home where it's happening right out in the open. John McCain wanted this sorted in 2008 - 14 years ago. After all one would imagine that sustaining human life requires that the water "on the books" actually exists, too, no? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact