Jaggi Vasudev Quotes
India's rivers are undergoing a drastic change. Our perennial rivers are becoming seasonal. Many of the smaller rivers have already vanished.
Vasudev, Jaggi. "Rally for Rivers." Isha Foundation, 2017, isha.sadhguru.org/rally-for-rivers.
Rivers that wind and do not follow a straight course actually change the course and the location of the center of the river bed with surprising rapidity. Some bends of the Colorado river system have moved 50 miles since the late 19th century when the first agreements and laws were made about borders, rights to water, jurisdiction, etc. Due to the centrifugal force of the flowing water on the river banks at the curved bends of the river those bends extend outward and the river bed follows.
It was Bruckner who first started serious discussion about human behavior affecting the climate of the earth. So the polarizing political issue really began in 1890.
The Rio Grande River flows through New Mexico on its way to Texas. However, for many reasons the river flow is diminishing and only a little water makes it to Texas. Some Texas politicians wanted the New Mexican farmers, who were miles from the river and have paid to drill wells which they use to pump water for their irrigation, to limit their water pumping. They argued that the pumping was diminishing the water in the underground aquifer, and this was causing some of the water flowing down the river to flow into the New Mexico aquifer thereby diminishing the river flow. The New Mexican farmers argue that they paid a great deal for that land because it came with water rights under the ground and the water is theirs. This was one of the many intractable problems of agricultural water allocation in the West where farmers plant many crops that would not normally survive in that part of the country without artificial irrigation.
