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The gantlet leaves those nations in an unjust state of limbo.

Inventories of irrigation ditches across the Western Slope have become common in recent years and water managers say they have merit, but the publicly funded studies aren’t always made public.

Inventories of irrigation ditches across the Western Slope have become common in recent years and water managers say they have merit, but the publicly funded studies aren’t always made public.

Inventories of irrigation ditches across the Western Slope have become common in recent years and water managers say they have merit, but the publicly funded studies aren’t always made public.

Part one of KUNC's Republican River series showed how dropping river flows and groundwater levels are impacting farmers and ranchers in northeastern Colorado. From a 1930s flood to extended drought today, the river has been managed by three states, sometimes cooperatively and sometimes combatively. To meet the terms of a decades-old compact, 25,000 irrigated acres of Colorado farmland must soon be shut down. Part two looks at part of the history that got the basin to this point.

As states agree to leave more water in the Colorado River reservoir, Native tribes get more involved after a history of being left on the water management sidelines.

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Renegotiating usage plans to sustainably conserve and store enough for all users of the Colorado River is easier said than done.

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.