White House Proposes Evenly Cutting Water Allotments From Colorado River

[not fooled]

14. The aquifer up where I live

is falling at the rate of about a foot a year, per anecdotal evidence from well drillers and property owners (I'm sure there are official stats from monitor wells but I haven't heard anything from local officials, unsurprisingly; they prefer the locals to be ignorant and uninvolved). I haven't heard about any actions being taken to deal with this. Whatever the cause, it's unsustainable. Don't worry, the lawns will go sooner or later once wells start being metered and eventually shut down as clueless residents will be forced into expensive, privatized water systems gifted to connected insiders to run as cash cows (see: Far West).