> What happens when a Native American village that's been around for 800 years can't afford its water supply because a nearby factory prices them out? > (Even

> What happens when a Native American village that's been around for 800 years can't afford its water supply because a nearby factory prices them out? > (Even better, the US might have promised to uphold that water right under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.) That's what's happening right now. CA growers get more than their agreed share, essentially for free. Native Americans get essentially none of their agreed share. Mexico gets literally none of their agreed share (that is, the river runs bone dry before it gets to them). That's the whole problem. The agreed shares add up to far more than 100%, and right now some states - especially CA - are benefiting disproportionately from the allotment.