Water and the West

10/04/23 • 49 min

Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy

Some 40 million people in the American West rely on water from the Colorado River. But the river’s flow has diminished, and those decreases will likely continue. What does this mean for the American West in general and California and Arizona in particular? Will booming metro areas—Maricopa County, for example—have to halt their growth? Will vast expanses of agriculture disappear? Or is there reason to be optimistic about the West’s water future? Grady Gammage Jr. and Sarah Porter of Arizona State University's Kyl Center for Water Policy discuss the issue.

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Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy - Water and the West

Transcript

Liam Julian:

Welcome to an O'Connor Institute issues and answers discussion on water and the West. I'm Liam Julian with the O'Connor Institute. Sarah Porter is the inaugural director of the Kyle Center for Water Policy. She is also an attorney, having graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree and obtaining her JD from Arizona State University, ranking third in her class. She clerked for federal appellate judge William Canby and was a litigator for Brown