The article is by Dave Devine and Molly McKasson. McKasson is a politician in addition to 'journalist.' [Note: journalist is in quotes not because of McKasson but because of the general putrid state of journalism, news and the media.]
The politics of lying to the public happens everywhere:
"Currently, the outflow of the Colorado is greater than the inflow," Barnett comments in an interview. "Apparently, no one has ever looked at the way people keep the books on this river. There has been deliberate overdrafting, while minimizing climate change and infiltration and ignoring increased evaporation due to drought."
But we keep building new homes and inviting in new residents ... as with global warming, of which some have been warning us for over 20 years 'we' have known that water problems were in Arizona's future even longer.
But we don't elect politicians who boringly discuss problems that need to be addressed. We elect politicians who either successfully scare the daylights out of most of us or give us hope.
And we pay for it and will pay for it in the end but 'til then ... enjoy, because tomorrow we ...
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