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The Colorado River Basin very well could get a few wet years, he said. “We might even get a wet decade. But, boy, the long-term warming and drying trend seems super clear to me,” Udall said.
At the heart of tensions over water allotments from the Colorado River is a complex set of agreements and decrees known as the 'Law of the River.'
The Colorado River is approaching a breaking point, its over-tapped reservoirs dropping. Years of drying have taken a toll at the river's source in the Rockies. The Colorado River is overused and ...
Huge contributions could be required from northern states under some scenarios, which they have balked at for months.
The federal government is telling seven states to make plans for drastically cutting water use along the Colorado River within two months. As water crisis worsens on Colorado River, an urgent call ...
In 2003, four Southern California water agencies, that had failed to reach a key Colorado River water-sharing pact, were studying a proposal that addressed the deal's main stumbling blocks. Government aides, including Gray Davis, proposed that the state Department of Water Resources explore a billion-dollar plan to shrink the size of the Salton ...
The Colorado River has been in crisis because of a multi-decade drought in the West intensified by climate change, rising demand and overuse. The 1,450-mile (2,334-kilometer) river also serves ...
Federal officials release a proposal outlining options for new, long-term rules for managing chronic water shortages from the overtapped Colorado River.