Back then, just posting a sign next to a water diversion was enough to be considered a right, one which could still be honored now. But the climate crisis is now straining those rights. There just isn't enough water in California to satisfy what's been allotted on paper.
Activists glue themselves to copy of Leonardo's 'The Last Supper,' adding to string of similar protestsThe Endangered Species Act was restored by a federal judge after Trump-era weakening For years, debate has raged in California about the best way to fix the water rights system for life in the modern era. Many of the senior water rights held in the state were set before 1914 when the permit system was established and when mining was big business."It's an old water system that many perceive isn't set up to deal with current climatic and hydraulic conditions," Nathan Metcalf, a water rights attorney for California law firm Hanson Bridgett, told CNN.
Nothing you say can be trusted. So Billy G and Klausy S are looking to deplete water reservoirs now too eh?