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As Colorado River Shrinks, States Continue To Argue Over Cuts
March 9th, 2024
Via The Land Desk, a look at how states continue to tussle over a shrinking Colorado River: The two groups of Colorado River watershed states — the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin — have each come up with a respective preliminary plan for how to deal with a shrinking supply of water in the […]
Read more »Can the Ocean Save the Colorado River? San Diego Thinks So.
March 7th, 2024
Via Voice of San Diego, an article on how the San Diego Water Authority is both selling off its expensive desal water and trying to make more of it: Facing rising costs and rates, the leaders of San Diego’s water lifelines are looking to sell some of its most expensive supply: de-salted ocean water from […]
Read more »Talks To Save The Colorado River Just Hit A Logjam
March 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on how talks to save the Colorado River just hit a logjam: There has been a breakdown on the way toward a long-term plan to save the shrinking Colorado River. Negotiations over plans to conserve its waters starting in 2027 have bifurcated: Arizona and California, two of the biggest […]
Read more »Climate Change, Cost and Competition for Water Drive Settlement Over Tribal Rights to Colorado River
March 6th, 2024
Via AP News, a report on how a Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement with more than a dozen parties, putting it on a path to piping water to tens of thousands of tribal members in Arizona who […]
Read more »Humans Killed Cataract Canyon. It Brought Itself Back to Life
February 26th, 2024
Courtesy of Rolling Stone, a look at how – after damming the Colorado River wiped out a magnificent stretch of rapids for half a century – they are now, incredibly, returning — on their own: THE RIVER CHURNS a muddy brown as it carries us through towering vermilion rock walls toward the roar of Gypsum Canyon […]
Read more »On The Colorado River, There Are No Simple Disputes
February 23rd, 2024
Via J. Fleck’s Inkstain, commentary on the foundational disputes that are holding up a new agreement on the Colorado River: One of the commentors to our January 19th, 2024, blog post titled “Are We headed for the First Colorado River Compact Tripwire?” – John C. (who, by-the-way runs a very talented water resources engineering firm) […]
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