Letter: The Root Cause

Another article about the doom and gloom of Colorado River water in the paper this morning. I appreciate the information, but rarely if ever see a reference or suggestion of a solution for the root cause: People. In the early 1900s dams were built throughout the west to develop reliable sources of irrigation water and encourage Midwestern and Eastern farmers to move to the west to increase the population here. Well, it worked. Now we have more people than the resource can supply. So the solution is painfully obvious. Encourage people to move somewhere else and restrict the expansion of agriculture. Hard solutions but obvious.