“You maniacs!”
by Tom Sullivan
Pretty dry out here in the American West. From ProPublica and Matter:
“Killing the Colorado,” a joint reporting project by ProPublica and Matter, set out to tell the truth about the American West’s water crisis. As serious as the drought is, the investigation found that mismanagement of that region’s surprisingly ample supply has led to today’s emergency. Among the causes are the planting of the thirstiest crops; arcane and outdated water rights laws; the unchecked urban development in unsustainable desert environments; and the misplaced confidence in human ingenuity to engineer our way out of a crisis — with dams and canals, tunnels and pipelines.
All that’s missing in this drought photo spread is Charlton Heston in a loincloth dropping to his knees and shouting, “God damn you all to hell!”