AND...control the water in the southwest:
snip-”This is an unprecedented legal claim to water.
(air will be next.)
Hmmm?
Next?
What exactly do you think carbon "credits" are being sold for?
Water rights have been the cause of many range wars for hundreds of years. This is just the latest.
For those who don’t know, in the West and Southwest, if you own the land, you don’t own the water. Saving rain water in the old days would get you killed by the guy renting the government land for grazing. Now it gets you sued.