Cucapah’s Indigenous Tribes and the Colorado River: A Matter of Life or Death
Channel: Soil Not Oil Coalition
Date: 2019-01-21

Luis Olmedo  Executive Director Comite Civico Del Valle
John Hernandez Director Our Roots Multi-Cultural Center
Juan Gonzalo Moreno Presidente de la Comunidad Cucapah, El Mayor
Rigoberto Campos Coordinador  General del Comite En Defensa del agua de Baja California
Humberto Lugo, California Environmental Justice Coalition (CEJC)
The panel presentation and discussion will focus on the Colorado River’s “Boom & Bust” of the Imperial and Mexicali Valleys. Discussion will include the Indigenous Cucapah’s struggle for survival as well as the small farmers fight for their allotments of Colorado river water. A brief overview of the regions history of the ag boom as well as the current negative impacts of poor air and water quality to the now community science and air and water monitoring being implemented. In addition the dangers of a drying Salton with no restoration efforts in place will be presented.