Native American tribes give unanimous approval to proposal securing Colorado River water
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed settlement that would ensure water rights for its tribe and two others in the drought-stricken Southwest - a deal that could become the most expensive enacted by Congress. The Navajo Nation has one of the largest single outstanding claims in the Colorado River basin. Delegates acknowledged the gravity of their vote Thursday and stood to applause after casting a unanimous vote. Many noted that the effort to secure water deliveries for tribal communities has spanned generations.
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I’ll believe it when I see it.
What your going to see is cities like Phoenix running out of water .
@@Trackratz-zl9di omg they’re gonna run out of water for car washing?? How horrible
@@Shamunt Yaaaa car washes and doctor's offices and schools and hospitals and all the businesses that employ all the people that keep civilization going .
@@Trackratz-zl9di It would be sad for all those golf courses to wither.
@@Trackratz-zl9di Perhaps Phoenix should consider a moratorium on swimming pools, watering grass including golf courses. There are incredibly beautiful ways to landscape WITHOUT grass.
What is another unbelievable aspect of this is the amount pf water waste in all desert towns/cities - Phoenix, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Glendale, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, etc, etc, etc. towns. Swimming pools, hot tubs, water misters, waterfalls, outdoor swamp coolers, golf courses, man made ponds in rich subdivisions. All of it to beat the heat in the desert &/or as decor while the Navajo Nation lacks basic drinking water! Disgraceful!
73% of the water usage is AG. The cities are actually pretty good with water. But I do agree that water shouldn’t be used for lawns and golf courses.
It is a basic human right to have access to water!!! It has been a nation wide embarrassment that the proud Indigenous Navajo nation
Have not had this most basic of necessitys to live.
Crops that are exported out of the country...
@@JeanBray-cj3lu If they didn't have the most basic necessities to live they would all be dead stop exaggerating.
@@MikeJones-uc5euDid you even watch the video? They continue to have to haul their water. If they don’t have a vehicle it’s impossible. I used to live in a place that was water haul and when the truck broke down or the rural roads were washed out from storms we were SOL. And we had it much better than people living on Navajo lands. Someone who wanted to move away from the city asked my BIL “What happens when the tank is empty?” Well you don’t have water. And if the roads are washed out or one doesn’t have a vehicle or someone to haul the water or $ to pay them you also don’t have water. It is not an easy way of life I tell you.
I’m grateful to hear that some progress is being made for Navajo Nation.
Too Many of us take water for granted
No running water for the nation , while over 200 golf courses across Arizona are outraged at proposals to limit their water usage .
It's about time this wrong was righted .
Revenues from golf to the state hit almost 0ne billion dollars (2022) You guys will be fine without that or even half ......... right ?
@@Trackratz-zl9diyes, the exchange of water isn't worth that weak interest they create and oddly enough make workers who want to help just leave and not get the right workers but a bunch of yes men to them to come here for such interest. If they can't do it to the south or northeast, or northwest then who are they to talk about Arizona.
@@Trackratz-zl9di yeah how much of that actually went to the public instead of lining the pockets of officials?
@@BigTrees4ever Those are the numbers from the state that they say they collected . I'm unaware what state agency keeps track of how much is stolen by corrupt politicians and state officials.
Yes, bolster the economy of your DESERT state with a water-intensive, status-oriented sport. The message of rich guys is casually playing golf on lush green grass in the middle of a parched landscape, seeing nothing wrong speaks to the desires of the wealthy elites and officials that the legislative system caters to.
Long Overdue.
Yes, I think we all agree it's an embarrassment.🌿
This shouldn’t be an issue, the Navaho People, and all native Americans deserve to have the same creature comforts every other American has..
Do they? I mean the only reason other Americans have access to water is by paying taxes. Which correct me if I'm wrong Navajo do not do.
Maybe they should, as an independent nation, tax their own people and fund water projects?
@@ViolentKisses87 go read a history book and educate yourself on how the Native Americans were treated way back in the days of the westward expansion, they had this entire country until Europeans moved in.. Little Big Horn, Trail of Tears…
@brctom1 I'm well aware being part native myself. But I disagree 100% that the living can or should pay for the sins of the dead.
Water rights to the Colorado are one thing, but theft from taxpayers today doesn't make up for theft irom indigenous in the past.
100% right.
@@brctom1what does that have to do with anything?
About time!!! Why wasn’t this done before?
Never had a Native lead the Department of the Interior before.
Deb Haaland is the bomb!!
Because they lost their battles
W and Gayle Norton made lots of promises that they never kept. US Gov sucks.
Hatred and racism basically
Here's a hint sweetheart, you have to actually pay for something to get it, now they're just going to get water for free while you have nothing
Serioously? We all know how the federal govt honors agreements with natives. that agreement ain't worth the paper its printed on.
Quit your pearl clutching and instilling doubt. This is historical legislation lead by the DoI Secretary, Deb Haaland, who is the first Native to lead a State Dept. Only Natives should be appointed to that seat (Dept of Interior).
@@carolinematusevich889 That's ridiculous.
@@spankyssurprise1361 why?
@@soulslip Because idea that only "natives" should head the State department is ridiculous. Based on what criteria?
Token
Paid to make sure California gets water over all
I had to haul water at one property while waiting for our well to be completed. We had a few horses as well and they drank so much! It is hard work!
Praying for you all.
This has been years in the making, the Fed slows the process down times 10.
Folks live off the land aren't allowed to use the river that comes through the rez for water, it's insane . I can't believe it took all these years.
This finally happened due to one woman--Deb Haaland, and the man who appointed her to lead the DoI. They could have worked on it for over 20 years, and it would have never gotten done without a Native leading the way. I believe Haaland is Laguna Pueblo and Apache.
@@carolinematusevich889 Congratulations. I am so proud of them.
Although basic human dignity shouldn't have had to have been asked for, for 20 years and longer.
Funny that when Israel comes up they're incredibly quick. Natives beware of the blue parasite.
@@JonDoeNeace lol 20 years or longer? Why didn't their country (Navajo Nation) drill the people some wells? You shouldnt be proud with blatant corruption in your face and people suffering because of the Chiefs.
Long, long overdue.
Water now!
About damned time ! Wait - CONGRESS NEEDS TO APPROVE IT ?! Don't you hold your breath now my Arizona Brothers and Sisters...
Especially the House because rethuglicans control it and they have zero empathy towards other groups of people.
So much for the country that claims to be about “all people being created equal.” That has *never* been true in America.
Work in progress.
Wasn’t the Constitution written after the genocidal invasions of the lands occupied by indigenous peoples?
What an absolute ignorant comment.
The fact that it took this long is an embarrasment to all Americans.
Agreed!
They are their own nations. Has nothing to do with "Americans".
No not all Americans ... just the natives lol 😆 😅
@@juanorozco932 They get all that money every year and couldnt even drill a well for their people. It's sad and then everyone is brainwashed into believing it's the US government doing it because the hate Indians lol Who gets drinking water from rivers in 2024?
@@DustinHeath-ki8lt F off you they are more American than you ever be you and your family probably came from freaking Germany
Should be approved immediately
Nah
It speaks volumes that the entire Navaho Nation was “left out” of the original infrastructure plan. Shame on those who did that.
USA? lmao
@@TheOtherKine They get enough money to drill wells. They are their own country so they need to do better. Navajo NATION
@@DustinHeath-ki8lt facts
Bigot
@@TheOtherKine You mean like all the Native American Casinos are making money hand over fist? Unlike the Donald Trump bankrupted casinos? LMAOx2.
I am so happy for the Dine’ nation. We need to fully support our country’s first people. They are a treasure that we have abused and neglected much too long.
I haven't done none of those things. I don't feel guilty......you can but I wont.
@@Just-HumanThe word to use is any. Not none. You wear your ignorance on your chest. I think it’s way over your head though.
@@Just-Humanthat’s truly the only defense that ignorant people can have when it comes to indigenous peoples. The amount of people I’ve argued to reach that point has been absurd but when you realize that only wrong has been done to them and is continuing to be done, you just gotta say “I don’t care” lol. Which is fine because we care and we are looking to those that do. Keep your internet troll ass in your room and on your keyboard and we’ll all be better off lol
@SuperHans58 morphology carper?
@@Just-Human You just mad because I am a niggler that prolapsed your momma’s bung?
Give natives what was already their homeland
Or they could win their wars. From a historic prospective, they’re lucky to even still have land
They lost.
Teach Natives to drill wells with the money they get from the government
@@DustinHeath-ki8lt Problem was they were not legally allowed to Drill wells either. Houses, Farms and even Lifestock water was brought in on Tankers
@@firstsgt279 They have a well drilling .gov site for the Navajo Nation. They can drill water wells on their own land and no one can stop them. Rez police won't even let state police on their lands. This has happened many times.
Only hundreds of years too late.
Hundreds? No most were brought here late 1800's. That said you'd think this would been corrected during 1960-70s. Lot of it means is instead of paying for water and taking it to their homes it will be provided and brought to them for free. Over 1/3 still live where wont have hookups to City Water, some will get wells built, some water brought to them in Mains and others will have tanks ion their Property that will be filled weekly/monthly at no cost. But this is still great news for all!
The Colorado River has been pumped into LA for around 100 years now. Before that it flowed freely.
@@lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527 It's Chinatown, Jake.
They were here first. ✊🏼
We moved them there :P Then refused to let them have water LOL!
Hardly
And they lost too
Historic homelands are as irrelevant as knowing what kind of sauce a caveman ate their mammoth meat with. The only thing that matters is who is here now, and who will be here in the future. The point in the matter is that nobody owns land, it will exist long after you die, so play pretend all you like - your existence to it is insignificant in the end.
Unfortunately for your knowledge of up-to-date Anthropology 101, they were NOT here first. They came thousands of years LATER across the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia. And likely wiped out the small bands of non-Indians who were already here. (NONE of the oldest skeletons are Indians. None.) But the point remains that all this water should belong now to American citizens and not the Chinese or other foreigners.
This is way overdue but I’m glad this is a breakthrough for the First Nations 🙏
Jebus, Navajos are still having to fight for water rights?? What is wrong with this picture?
Well, to start, they lost other wars and battles that put them in this position
500+ years of attempted cultural geneocide...
@@never2much9g - Lol. They lost. They L-O-S-T. The old saying is “to the Victor goes the spoils.” Even indigenous, or First Nations, people lived that.
Disgraceful that it's taken so long and that 1/3 of homes do not have drinkable water.
But how long did it take the Saudis get water on the land they own in Arizona abd California, just asking
Hell, the Saudis RENTED land at a very steep discount and used millions (billions?) of gallons of water for pennies. You can thank the Republicon governor for that sweet deal. Thankful, Gov. Hobbs ended it. But not before the ground cracked and caved in without the store water to hold it up.
It’s about time. Get petitions with signatures delivered to Congress, call them 📞
This is still a problem in some Canadian reserves too. Stay strong and keep fighting ❤
It’s bout time ….never even knew they didn’t have access to water….its thir land!
Access to clean water should be a basic human right.
Everyone should contact their congressional & house rep & demand they support this legislation asap.
Yes, access to clean water should be a priority,
especially over the $$$ making, more than abundant Golf courses.
You act like they cant move off the reservation lol
@@Woobieeee Maybe you should move off their lands...you act like another fμ€kwit colonizer who sleeps over the bones of indigenous ancestors , who continues to utter hateful rhetoric supporting the erasure & contemptible genocide of a people & their entire culture.
A Shameful Disgrace to Humanity.
@@Woobieeee you act like someone without even 2 brain cells.
A right to access water doesn't mean others should pay to bring it to you. It simply means you should be free to access the water that is available.
Im Navajo. I don't like how non natives feel about their place here, how they ended up here.
So in this case, well older licenses issued in a 70s and 80s still be top dogs over new licenses?
Finally.
"No signed paper can hold the iron"
"The white man's government speaks with the double-tongue"
How about Indians when they tell you they are not going to attack your wagon train or hurt any women and children?
It will be approved. Then it will be reneged, as all such agreements always are.
But there is a very real upstream advantage.
They spout on about human rights abroad and give millions in aid but they can’t look after the people who they stole the land off.Sort of says it all
When a golf course gets more water than the people who lived before golf.
Apparently the second richest tribe spent the money on casinos and not plumbing
Ridiculous comment your not funny
Apparently the richest government in the world has spent trillions to advocate for two middle eastern wars, a 998 billion dollar military budget, the pentagon failing 7 financial audits in a row each year which can’t account for 3 trillion dollars in tax payer funds allocated to the Pentagon. A country that spends more money putting people into jails than communist China. While 600,000 American people are homeless, 50,000 are veterans, the highest rate of childhood poverty, and the number one cause of bankruptcy in America is healthcare costs. A country that can’t even afford to get clean water to Flint Michigan. A country whose infrastructure is so outdated it’s gotten a D rating from the American Civil Society of Engineers. The highest rate of wealth and income inequality where more wealth is concentrated in the hands of the 1% and top 1/10 of 1% of Individuals in America. A government owned and bought by the wealthy elite and corporate elite that has seen the largest transfer of wealth into their pockets and seen their wealth grow by 5 trillion during the COVID-19 pandemic. You shouldn’t throw stones when you live in a glass house you ignorant tool. A country who pays its workers starvation wages where people have to work two to three jobs just to make ends meet, a system which allows Wall Street to purchase and monopolize industries and the housing market which has led to a rise in housing costs and greedflation where corporations have knowingly used the pandemic as an excuse to raise prices to increase profits to shareholders while wages remained stagnant leading to an affordability crisis in consumer goods and housing. American politicians both Democratic and Republican work together to enrich themselves and their donors whilst average Americans suffer eating the crumbs.
@@anabell6679exactly
You should be ashamed
Classless remark.
Lobby Congress? For God's sake It's our land.
Only by American grace. They were conquered. They’re lucky to even have lane
@@wafflewafflegod How Christian of you. 🙄🙄🙄. I'm Asian American, btw.
@@sixtynine2856 Same! 2nd Generation Vietnamese American! And I'm not Christian, but good for you!
@@wafflewafflegod Well. You're English needs to be clearer. Are you speaking ill of the Navajo or what?
@@sixtynine2856 Ironic that you think my English needs to be better 😂
Have you learned the difference between “your” and “you’re”???
Should be paying natives for water
Why would it be a hard fight in Congress? It should be a no brainer with unanimous approval.
Have you seen Congress lately? The only thing they’ve passed this year is more foreign aid to other countries. As chambers of Congress are divided and it’s an election year this deal has zero chances of passing. It might barely pass if there’s enough pressure. I remember the PACT ACT failed Congress twice but it took Jon Stewart going to the media and shaming politicians for both parties finally to vote for and pass healthcare for Veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. If it took 10 years for Jon Stewart to fight to secure veterans healthcare benefits than that should tell you a lot by about Congress.
Which way do they vote?
You forget that there is a strong contingent of congressmen who's major objective is to keep any business from being done at all.
Its a guerilla war strategy. If you can't win, you can at least make the place unmanageable, so nobody else does, either.
In my opinion, their Nations and others like theirs should be given anything they ask.
Congress better approve this dire need for water 💦! Now, what about the Navajo who are without Electricity ⚡️?
The real natives should divert as much as they want..it is theirs after all!
Appalling they've been waiting this long.
Why would any native trust the government?! I hope for the best but fear for the worst
This should have been legislated at the state level where people could vote on the measure! Keeping at the federal level meant only two senators could push the issue, which they probably didn’t. All those federal treaties were broken by the federsl government, so they were worthless.
That's their land and water, we stole everything. We are the ones in the wrong
The government should have done this a long time ago..
Can't remember the last time Congress did the right thing
Can't remember the last time they did ANYTHING.
Prayers for this to jump through the red tape effectively, efficiently & promptly! Godspeed.
ANY water in the nation belongs to the nation. NOT the US which is a seperate sovereign nation.
Nah, we're one nation. Tribes don't have to fund everything themselves and can apply for funding like any city or state. They couldn't do that if they weren't part of the country. Nor would they have the right to vote for state or national political seats if they weren't citizens of the the U.S..
@@bukka6697 they don't.
@@bukka6697 state law has no athority over them, cannot go on tribal lands. Not even police, they have their own.
@@daviddiehl-gy2sq I'm not saying there wasn't a long and infuriating effort to suppress native voting, but since the Indian Citizenship Act 100 years ago, they have that right entrenched in law. Many states barred them despite the law, but in recent times barriers have crumbled and they're being courted by political candidates at state and federal levels for their votes. As for funding, there are many sources available to them: Agriculture & Forestry programs, such as farm loans and NAAF; Natural Resources Conservation services; Broadband and Telecommunication services; Community Development grants; Disaster services; Economic Development grants; Tribal Tourism grants; Education grants and College initiative programs; Employment training grants; Energy & Energy Efficiency; etc., etc..
This is tough. Because a lot of the Navajo live in remote regions. So the reason why Phoenix and other cities and towns rule areas, have running water, so easily, is because they’re in a populated city. Once you start going to Paige, Payson, and those areas, it’s remote, and there’s not many people there. So this would be true if it was in Idaho, and there’s only 500 people in the town. Every person would have to have their own water tank for example and sewer system for example. So it’s not specific to Arizona. This is just tough. But I’m glad for the Navajo’s.
It’s absolutely disgraceful that indigenous people have to go through this crap. Wanna see something else that’s absolutely disgusting? Check out the effects of Peabody Coal Co. on the people and the tribal lands up in Black Mesa, Arizona.
How can we help?
Call your Representatives to support the Navajo Nation. Secondly, FAX it in WRITING. I’m a former Tribal elected official who is now an elder. Thank you for supporting this. ☺️🙏🏽
The water used to be clean to drink without the need for any filtration or treatment, and clean enough to swim, ride up and down the ways to where Phoenix sits today. If these State leaders don’t accept to help these people with modern irrigation as an accommodation for the changes have happened since then they are acting offensively and posing a genocidal risk to people who live where they live because of a known genocide.
I love this.
Give them their water 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I don't understand it took the US so long to grant these rights to the Native people
This is BS they should have every right to that water
I have a dream of a Native American majority in Congress. Give it all back to the Indigenous peoples.
Nobody is "indigenous" on the American continent and the American Indians (from Siberia) most certainly were not here first. Ignorance of anthropology 101 is no excuse, Mr. "This channel doesn't have any content" fake account bot.
The cat came back. I am the Cat Republic of Vinland open to all refugees. Vive le Chat. 🐈 @@davidb2206
I wish them all the best trying to get Congress to pass anything for a minority group in this Country.
WE all need much more luck to get congress to do anything besides Grift.
Phoenix and other large Southwest cities need to take action NOW to conserve and recycle water, just as Tuscan and Las Vegas have done. This would go a long way toward protecting water supplies in the future.
Question: could wells not have been drilled long ago? Why must the water come directly from the river? I have no geological or engineering experience so am just curious.
Wells have been drilled but the water was contaminated with radiation from uranium in the ground. Only a few wells are safe and those are the ones water is being hauled from.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Oh, thanks for the clarification.
2024 and the country that "leads the way in the world" still guilty of and showing no remorse for one of its first crimes.
"This channel doesn't have any content" Another communist bot and fake account. If you are in America (instead of lying), why don't you LEAVE?!!
For Native Americans to have to fight for what was already their's to start with really pisses me off! I am being respectful to say this in the choice words I use! Disgraceful for them to suffer these battles! Uncalled for! Shamefully wrong! 🔥 🐃, As a half blood Cherokee/Lakota,Irish Cherokee this rips at the blood that flows within me...Smokenbull 😡
I wonder how many white treaty negotiators were "honored" with beautiful sounding Indian names that really meant "Lying sack of doo doo".
Wow! Progress, at last! Honestly, this should get the ball rolling to bring proper human rights to these first nations people! Let’s hope the forward motion is sustained and the wealth so unevenly shared shifts back to help those so deserving! Good news.
It's shameful that anyone living in the US should have to live without running water. This change is way overdue.
IT SHOULDNT BE HARD, ITS ONLY HUMANE....🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
The Native American Navaho Tribes should have the “first” rights to the Water of their Lands!!
This land ain't theirs. Never was.
The fact we haven’t taken care of them is PITIFUL.
Without the NAVAJO NATION we could have LOST WW2.
True story.
Anyone disrespecting these folks is a disgrace to the name AMERICAN.
They still serve, probably more than any other nationality per capita. They are warriors to the last. I for one have earned a deal respect for them because I am a Marine.
Semper fi First Nation
I’ve driven through the Navajo nation. It is DESOLATE.
How people could live there period, especially without running water is beyond me.
I’m curious to see how the infrastructure is implemented. People on the Nation are spread out in a large area. Even if they get a pipeline, they will still not have running water in many of their homes.
You will wait for the thieves to give back ?
My prayers are with you.
They could have the water we get here in southern California if the state would start building a lot of capture basins or something. We get enough rain that if we capture it we'd have plenty of water. Right now 85% of our rain water ends up in the ocean. Such a waste.
There goes the water.
Got a problem?
Should have had it years ago. So very happy for them.
Each time I go west and see this disparity I know that my savior cries. When will all be seen as people and treated with respect 😕❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Many disparities also when you head east.
Why hasn't the governor come to their aid?. They should not have to lobby for something so basic. God bless these people .
They should come first before all others, they were here first.
Why has this happened this is like the old wild west who is responsible look how does the NATIVE AMERICAN always the last anywhere
The way in which Eurocaucasian people (like me) have treated the Indigenous Nations is disgraceful. The Navajo Nation has repeatedly saved the land and been guardians for our Mother the Earth. The thanks of American culture has been to deny them recognition, electricity, running water, and refusals to honor treaties signed between our sovereign nation and theirs. I am so sorry.
Vote blue, change congress.
it may change Congress so they can force policies on the voters that they don't want, like the Climate Hoax! Higher taxes, inflation, corrupt politicians. If you don't like Trump don't vote at all better than voting the other way!
vote blue and lose the entire country.
Lol
Lmao.o…nooooooo
Was there any other realistic option, lol? The current conservative congress is worse than useless… just sucking up tax dollars sitting around.
I pray God helps the Navajo Nation get the water they desperately need and that God may move the hearts of congress on getting this approved asap. Amen 🙏🏻
God is more likely to help them before congress ever does.
@@dinahnicest6525 he will. Have faith!
Hope it came with a big monetary settlement.
It's about time!
I hope what you need is passed ASAP. Time for justice is now.❤️
They should be a priority period
No water left to split
Same old same. Biden been in politics over 45 yrs and never lifted a finger 😅😅😅😅
every home on the navaho nation should have a large water collection roof , with a large rain water storage tank . i will glad spend tax dollars on this .
"It's going to be a tough fight in Congress"... why? This "reporter" didn't explain if there was opposition and if so, on what basis. There was entirely no effort whatsoever to present such a view. Is this woman just playing the victim? Or will there be an actual fight?
The Navajo own multiple water sources around the state and for generations refused to build the infrastructure.
Well Colorado said a month ago no help with toxic water hopefully that has changed
Good!!!!!
"They are not of us," is why the land was taken.
"They are not of us," is why it was given back.
I too approve
I’m a civil as I can be. But how come the Aboriginal of this land still don’t have water!!! Then you want them to pay for water ?! When it is there water to begin with!!!? You need to make things right!!! After all the WRONGS that you have done to those people!!! And how will you do better?!!
Because they haven't been building the required infrastructure in their reservations the way everyone else does in the states? Everyone else pays taxes to be able to get water from a tap, why shouldn't they have to do the same?
Seriously, you lot really need to get over this intergenerational guilt nonsense. No-one alive today is responsible for the actions of those who came before them.
@JakeStateFarm420 Pumps, pipes and water filtration systems don't install or maintain themselves and the water runs off someone else's land onto theirs so I'd think that through before claiming it belongs to them.
@JakeStateFarm420 Did the point just go over your head or are you being intentionally obtuse? Mother nature doesn't put water in your tap.
@JakeStateFarm420 I did watch the video. The issue isn't water rights, it's that they expect the tax-payers to foot the bill for infrastructure that they, as a sovereign entity, should have been building themselves. No-one sane has an issue with them having water rights and they should absolutely have equal rights to access their fair share of the available water.
I was responding to the original comment which says "Then you want them to pay for water ?! When it is there water to begin with!!!?". You also said something similar. Anyone who wants to get water from a tap needs to pay for it to be cleaned and transported to them in some manner so they WILL ultimately have to pay for their water just like everyone else does.
Quit pumping the Colorado River into the LA basin.
This should have been done decades ago