&gt; I think it&#x27;s important to understand that we&#x27;ve known the American Southwest has had water problems since the 1800s, had a solution to full resolve them, but for various reasons chose not to.<p>At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, that&#x27;s like saying that I&#x27;ve understood that my Maserati payment is too much for me to afford and I&#x27;ve known that since the day I bought it and the solution proposed by my financial adviser was to crash it into a fuel depot at 150kph, but for various reasons I chose not to.<p>You can&#x27;t just say &quot;hey, we knew this would happen but our failure to sacrifice thousands of square kilometers of land, a whole lot of natural habitats, the livelihoods of the same number of people who live in Spokane, oh and the little thing of almost completely destroying a major fish species that is relied on by humans and animals alike...that&#x27;s on us&quot; and call it a day.  Well, I suppose you can, but that&#x27;s rather disingenuous of you for any future people who find this thread.