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Paper examines looming water crisis driven by immigration policy
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Monday, November 29, 2010

WASHINGTON — A new paper published this month by the Center for Immigration Studies focuses on the looming water crisis in the American Southwest and the role of immigration-driven population control, according to a press release.

Authored by New Mexico journalist Kathleene Parker, “Population, Immigration, and the Drying of the American Southwest” explores the link between the possibility of the potentially catastrophic economic and environmental water crisis and the fact that the Southwest is the fastest-growing region of the world’s fourth-fastest-growing nation, the release stated.

The paper examines the drought- and growth-depleted Colorado River, including the high probability that the first-ever drought emergency could be declared on the river by early 2011 and the possibility that Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, could run dry in the not too distant future, with hydroelectric production threatened even sooner.

Six states are dependent upon Colorado River to provide water to roughly 60 million people, and that number could double over the next four decades if immigration is not returned to far lower levels in the near future, according to the release.

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