The problem is that far too much water is diverted from the Colorado River, not which state gets to divert it.  I don't see how this is an environmental issue.

Hay isn't that the river that Flows threw the big canyon? Well give Mac a BIG drink of it( it has a lot of radioactivity as some of its pollution from the uranium mines), or has Pres.Bush conned every one on that too.  

Most people who aren't from the interior West -- roughly, that part of the country east of the Cascade & Sierra Mountain ranges, and west of the Continental Divide -- really don't get just how scarce water is here, and what a disaster is in the making for and because of certain areas like Phoenix and Las Vegas.  And Denver.

Places like Phoenix and Las Vegas are unsustainable in the long term, for various reasons, water being only one of them.  Which will play itself out in time, so that's fine.  

But in the meantime, those cities are draining aquifers and rivers throughout the interior West to feed their reckless habits.  So we should quit being enablers.  We should cut them off from any new supplies. The sooner the better.  For their good, and for our good.

Doing otherwise is like giving more rum to an alcoholic.  Let them all move to Milwaukie or Buffalo or Baltimore.

Don,

When I was a 48-state trucker, Phoenix and Vegas were my most hated cities (still are).  They are beyond unsustainable, they have already caused massive ecological destruction just by their existence.  Add to that the fact that people in Phoenix have lawns and swimming pools, which waste massive amounts of water and should be prohibited in the West due to its arid nature, and the massive waste of electricity that is Las Vegas, which requires the hideous Hoover Dam(n), and you have the two cities that I'd like to remove the most.