Wall Street is thirsty for its next big investment opportunity: The West's vanishing water

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Critics accuse Greenstone — a subsidiary of the East Coast financial services conglomerate MassMutual — of trying to profit off Cibola's most precious and limited resource: water.

filed by La Paz, Mohave and Yuma counties against the federal Bureau of Reclamation for signing off on the water transfer.

In a court-filed response to the counties' lawsuit, DOJ attorneys argued that Reclamation's environmental assessment "fully satisfied" the National Environmental Policy Act. It convincingly demonstrated that the transfer would not result in any significant impacts to the environment: at most, it will result in a trivial reduction in the flows in one stretch of the Lower Colorado River.

"Greenstone is going to make millions at the expense of what it's going to do to our communities in the future and the precedence it's going to set," said Irwin. "We are in the midst of an extreme drought, our communities need this water. At some point, the state has a responsibility to protect the people that are here and to protect our water and not cater to those that are buying property for the water rights to make millions off of it to benefit metropolitan areas.

"As property owners, my clients hold a water right," Gammage said. "This is the same as all the farmers along the river, who hold land that has been irrigated, in most cases for over 100 years. That water right is valuable property, which can be transferred. It's like buying and selling land, except that, Colorado River water can only be transferred if it goes through an extensive review process at both the state and federal levels.

 

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