I agree the water should be kept within the region and kept as ecologically sound as possible.

There have been water wars in the West since it was settled; the last, recent, big fight I knew of was the eastern slope of Colorado wanting to literally put a "giant straw" at the border of western Colorado and Utah, to suck up some of the Colorado River and get it back over to the burgeoning eastern slope before it went out of the state. So far they have not been allowed to do so. The Colorado waters so much of the West.

Wyoming literally has no water left of its own as it has sold it all down stream. Rog had a handout some gov. guy gave him a few years ago which explained where it all went.

People have been killed over water rights out here forever. My great-granddad went to court several times over water and grazing rights and finally had to defend himself, lethally, against the neighbour who came gunning for him over it all when the courts couldn't settle it.

My brother was greeted by a neighbour, toting a shotgun, when he went to let down some irrigation water one day.

There's so much this country and others could do to conserve so much more water so that this wouldn't be so much of an issue. We do NOT need to move water from one region to another to make the latter less of a desert or whatever other natural habitat it may be. Things always get screwy when we mess with Mother Nature.