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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.

CFMT announced awards of over $2.6 million to 439 local nonprofits and organizations in 32 Middle Tennessee counties as part of 2021 annual grantmaking

A state water official said Thursday that the lessons learned from releasing water from Blue Mesa Reservoir and two other reservoirs to bolster supplies in Lake Powell will be considered

To water resiliency advocates at the U.N. climate conference, the Colorado River stands out as 'the best example globally of how things can go badly.'

The 96-degree heat has barely broken early on a September evening near Fruita. As the sun prepares to set, the ailing Colorado River moves thick and quiet next to Interstate

The 96-degree heat has barely broken early on a September evening near Fruita. As the sun prepares to set, the ailing Colorado River moves thick and quiet next to Interstate

Developers are using unrated bonds to finance a golf course-centered resort in fast-growing southern Utah.

The American West’s water crisis is a perfect storm of over-promises, over-estimations and overuse during a mega-drought worsened by climate change. This was my major takeaway from a scary and sobering read by photojournalist Caitlan Ochs, via Buzzfeed. "People--Not Just the Megadrought--Are Driving the West's Water Crisis." There is not a lot new here for observers who have