30 Native American tribes depend on the Colorado River and collectively they own the rights to as much as 30% of its waters. But the tribes say they are continually left out of the discussion on how the West is going to save it from drying up.
Many of those rights amount to “paper water,” however, Manuel Heart, chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, said. Meaning, they own the water on paper but don’t have access to it.
So much of that water flows downstream, padding the Colorado River’s dangerously low reservoirs and leaving tribes uncompensated for the precious resource. “Where’s our water right for the land that was taken away from us? How come we just get a drop in the bucket?” Heart said. “The federal government’s still got their thumb on us.”
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