Amid ‘dire situation’ for Colorado River Basin, headwater states say they can’t cut water they don’t have

Amid ‘dire situation’ for Colorado River Basin, headwater states say they can’t cut water they don’t have

by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile Under pressure to strike a compromise on water cuts, and amid talk of litigation, Wyoming and other upper Colorado River Basin states are pointing to the climate-driven disaster unfolding in the West to insist they can’t cut what Mother Nature isn’t providing in the headwaters. While some observers suspect that argument is cover for withholding more cuts in water use, the upper-basin contingency insists it has negot…