Who’s Taking America’s Water? | Climate Town

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Got water? Check out Ground News! https://ground.news/climatetown/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ClimateTown sUbScRiBe FoR mOrE ViDeOs: https://www.youtube.com/c/climatetown?sub_confirmation=1 Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to: https://ground.news/climatetown And yes we still have a Patreon, except now it’s new and improved with a ton of actually good perks. Support from our Patrons allows us to make videos like the one you probably just watched, and you can check out the options here: https://www.patreon.com/ClimateTown But do we also have t-shirts now? Pretty much! We even made an entire video about merch and how we chose to make these specific t-shirts. And also here’s the link to buy our shirts: https://merch.climatetownproductions.com/ We also have a podcast! It’s called The Climate Denier’s Playbook and you can listen to it right here: https://linktr.ee/deniersplaybook And good lord we have a newsletter too! You can check it out here: https://www.climatetown.news/ And wait there’s actually something we can do about this maybe? Our friends at Climate Changemakers have put together a playbook to help you advocate for water conservation and sustainable farming incentives in the next US Farm Bill: https://www.climatechangemakers.org/farming-all-access And what the hell here are some great other water-related pieces to check out: Reveal: The Great Arizona Water Grab (https://revealnews.org/podcast/the-great-arizona-water-grab/) High Country News: Hay – yes, hay – is sucking the Colorado River dry (https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-colorado-river-hay-yes-hay-is-sucking-the-colorado-river-dry/) Los Angeles Times: Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds (https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-28/alfalfa-hay-beef-water-colorado-river) Grist: The very bad math behind the Colorado River crisis (https://grist.org/drought/colorado-river-water-rights-california-arizona-fight/) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Water (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtxew5XUVbQ) EPISODE SOURCES & CITATIONS: https://www.climatetownproductions.com/youtube/westernwater Special thanks to Teal Lehto for her help on this episode, and also for all of her fantastic videos about water in the Western US. You simply have to check her out: https://www.instagram.com/westernwatergirl/ And another special thanks to Professor Robert Glennon for his help on this episode, and also all his research and articles and books over the years about the water shortage in the Western US: https://robertglennon.net/ And also special thanks to Charlotte Grubb for her help on this episode. You can check out more of her work here: https://x.com/CharlotteGrubb And one more special thanks for Youngs Farm for letting us film on their very nice land. If you’re on Long Island and you’re looking for a beautiful farm that sells fresh produce and pies right on site? Well then friend, you’re looking for: https://youngs.farm/ Check us out on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/climatetown Oh what's that? We’re also on the larger Internet? Discord server: https://discord.gg/yPpfgSaZeQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/climatetown/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@climatetown Website: https://www.climatetownproductions.com/ LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/ClimateTown Make a tax-deductible donation to Climate Town: https://www.climatetownproductions.com/support Join and support some movements! 350.org (https://350.org/) Sunrise Movement (https://www.sunrisemovement.org/) NRDC (https://www.nrdc.org/) Climate Changemakers (https://www.climatechangemakers.org/) Host, Head Writer, Editor: Rollie Williams Executive Producers: Rollie Williams, Ben Boult, Matt Nelsen, Daniella Philipson Producer: Daniella Philipson Writer: Matt Nelsen Director: Matt Nelsen Cinematography: Ben Boult Additional Cinematography: Matt Nelsen Assistant Editors: Laura Conte, Byron Leon LA Producer: Brad Einstein Production Assistant: Alex Call Additional Research: Nicole Conlan, Ben Boult, Sophia Vanderheym Intro Animator: Ian MK Cessna (https://ianhasawebsite.com/) Theme music by Gratis (https://www.youtube.com/@gratis3241) Special thanks to the Civil Liberties Defense Center (https://cldc.org/) for their continued support.