A Conceptual Breakthrough Has Emerged for the Colorado River’s Future. Here’s What It Looks Like.

A conceptual breakthrough has emerged for the Colorado River’s future. Here’s what it looks like.

After months of stalemate, glimmers of hope have emerged for consensus on a new plan to manage the shrinking Colorado River. Negotiators from the seven river basin states said in a series of meetings in recent weeks that they were discussing a plan rooted in a concept that breaks from decades of management practice. Rather than basing water releases on reservoir levels, it would base the amount released from the system’s two major reservoirs on …

Lower Colorado River farmers fear economic calamity from water cuts

States may meet federal deadline on new Colorado River water-sharing deal

About 40 million people rely on the Colorado River for drinking water. It also irrigates agricultural fields. It's also shrinking. Now, states might agree on a potential deal on sharing the river.

States may meet federal deadline on new Colorado River water-sharing deal - EnviroLink Network

About 40 million people rely on the Colorado River for drinking water. It also irrigates agricultural fields. It's also shrinking. Now, states might agree on a potential deal on sharing the river.