[dragonwriter]

Maybe people should just not expect to settle in a place where senior water rights held by others mean there is no supply of water for them?

[photonthug]

So it is right and proper for a few extended families to determine the fate of an entire region? It's not even one city of millions, it is several we're talking about.

[cratermoon]

You mean the water rights of the Utes, Paiutes, Hope, Diné, Havasu, Mojave, Kumeyaay? I agree.