This audio interview with attorney Jason Flores-Williams was done by Anne Marie Tremonti and appeared on cbcradio’s The Current, October 10, 2017.

In March of this year, New Zealand marked a legal first: The Whanganui River was granted the same legal status as a human, with rights and protections.

A few months later, on Sept. 25, a U.S. environmental group, Deep Green Resistance, filed a lawsuit asking a judge to grant the same rights as a person to the Colorado River.

Denver lawyer Jason Flores-Williams who is helping to bring this case to suit says giving the Colorado River legal rights as an entity is “a way to balance the playing field.” MORE…