Key Colorado River negotiator says talks must shift away from status quo amid 'crisis'

As Colorado River Basin stakeholders scramble to formulate a long-term water conservation plan, the Centennial State’s main negotiator urged those at the table to be adaptable to change in an increasingly arid West. “Some may like to continue the status quo or some version of it,” Becky Mitchell, Colorado’s Upper Colorado River commissioner, said at…

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