After 100 years, Colorado River water allocations under the Colorado River Compact face strict scrutiny as water levels have dropped due to drought, climate change and population growth. Read more.
Water managers representing the four upper basin states — Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico — released details of a conservation plan that would pay water users to voluntarily reduce their use of Colorado River water.
Upper basin officials say the plan is designed to prevent cuts to protect critical elevations at the nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Both reservoirs now sit three-quarters empty.
Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which Bureau of Reclamation officials have used twice during the past two years to add water to the rapidly deteriorating Colorado River system, likely has only enough
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