Who’s Taking America’s Water? | Climate Town

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it in Colorado River and water-use threads as an accessible explainer of why the Western water shortage keeps getting worse.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Climate Town

Topic

western us water use

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2024–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• If you don't mind the presentation style, [VIDEO] is great presents an even direr situation: because water rights are "use it or lose it", we are actively encouraging water misuse, beyond just "it's cheap enough to misuse it".

• Climate Town did a great video breaking down where a lot of this ends up, worth the watch if you want some more detailed background on the agreements in place that are leading to this happening: [VIDEO]

• For anyone interested in the background behind this clusterfuck, Climate Town has a good explainer: [VIDEO] . It's not just drought, it's because many of the players involved are required to waste as much water as they can - the video has the details.