How a new wave of water management called a “conservation pool” could provide a way forward for Colorado River users

How a new wave of water management called a “conservation pool” could provide a way forward for Colorado River users

With no progress to speak of in the Colorado River negotiations, some water experts are looking to a conservation program — featuring pools of invisible water and some accounting magic — as a possible path forward.  The seven Colorado River states, including Colorado, remain deeply divided over how to manage the nation’s largest reservoirs, lakes Mead and Powell, after the current management rules expire this fall. But other water users have put…