Basin Implementation Plans News Today

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 8:00am Mountain

Hundreds of water managers, experts, academics and thinkers will meet next week in Las Vegas at the Colorado River Water Users Association annual conference. Some of them are discussing a somewhat radical idea: splitting the water between upper and lower basin, not at a fixed 7.5 million acre-feet each, as outlined in the 1922 compact, but an even half and half of whatever the flows are in a given year — nonstationary guidelines that allow for adapting to less water overall.

Hundreds of water managers, experts, academics and thinkers will meet next week in Las Vegas at the Colorado River Water Users Association annual conference. Some of them are discussing a somewhat radical idea: splitting the water between upper and lower basin not at a fixed 7.5 million acre-feet each as outlined in the 1922 compact, but an even half and half of whatever the flows are in a given year — non-stationary guidelines that allow for adapting to less water overall.

Hundreds of water managers, experts, academics and thinkers will meet next week in Las Vegas at the Colorado River Water Users Association annual conference. Some of them are discussing a somewhat radical idea: splitting the water between upper and lower basin not at a fixed 7.5 million acre-feet each as outlined in the 1922 compact, but an even half and half of whatever the flows are in a given year — non-stationary guidelines that allow for adapting to less water overall.

Hundreds of water managers, experts, academics and thinkers will meet next week in Las Vegas at the Colorado River Water Users Association annual conference. Some of them are discussing a somewhat radical idea: splitting the water between upper and lower basin not at a fixed 7.5 million acre-feet each as outlined in the 1922 compact, but an even half and half of whatever the flows are in a given year — non-stationary guidelines that allow for adapting to less water overall.

Hundreds of water managers, experts, academics and thinkers will meet next week in Las Vegas at the Colorado River Water Users Association annual conference. Some of them are discussing a somewhat radical idea: splitting the water between upper and lower basin not at a fixed 7.5 million acre-feet each as outlined in the 1922 compact, but an even half and half of whatever the flows are in a given year — non-stationary guidelines that allow for adapting to less water overall.