I'm not sure that people are going to move here, or that they are going to want to move our water to where they are. Turns out that it is economically feasible to pipe our water west, even as far as California. That is why little diversions are so important to stop. If one entity can take the water out of the basin, it makes it harder to say no to others.

When I lived in Colorado, it was amazing to me how much water they wasted in an arid climate. They watered the highway medians in the summer! Some of the subdivisions still don't allow xeriscaping. They don't meter the water in many areas. Only now are they starting to think about reducing water use rather than trying to grab more from someone else. There are towns that are already trucking in water to use as their regular water source. But Western water has always been about might making right. Anyone interested in a good read should try Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert." It is a depressing, but accurate look at Western water. We are going to have to get a little less nice and Midwestern if we want to keep ours.