http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/25/the-disappearing-river
Worth the long read.
To me, this confirms my bias that humans can't safely manage any resource at the scale of 10s of millions of people and 6 or so states and two countries. The only solution at a point becomes too drastic to name.
Neither utopian governments nor utopian self-reliant collectives/compounds (depending on your inclination) will be able to manage it.
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The "tragedy of the commons" often cited and basically at work here, that is dismissing the ideas of well managed Commons ressources, is falsely based on a "free for all" scheme and not a structure of governance like described by Elinor Oestrom and others... yes, it's complicated to put in place but no, letting down and falling for totalitarian idea is just a lack of courage and imagination...