Along with Lake Mead, the ogalla aquifer.. That whole area is turning from semi-arid to desert. Time to start moving people away. If I was in charge of those

Along with Lake Mead, the ogalla aquifer.. That whole area is turning from semi-arid to desert. Time to start moving people away. If I was in charge of those areas, I'd start by buying up and closing farms in order to perform a controlled shutdown of the agricultural sector in those states. The people would leave on their own without the industry there. Without agriculture, the water inputs and outputs would be balanced, at least for the present. There really isn't a choice here between shutting down agriculture in the southwest vs not shutting it down. The only choice is between doing it in a planned, gradual way, or in an unplanned, chaotic way. Do you want this plane to crash, or do you want it to land?