Page 104 - Upper Basin News Today

By GREG WALCHER

Colorado River water managers are facing a monumental task. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has asked seven western states to commit to an unprecedented amount of conservation and do it before a deadline later this summer. This comes amid shrinking water levels in the nation's largest reservoirs.

If the seven states fail to agree on a plan, the bureau will step in and impose water cuts on the states, Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton warned.

Colorado River basin states can do more to keep Lake Mead and Lake Powell on life support, or they can balk and let the feds decide for them.

Lake Powell, the blue-green gem of the Colorado River and one of the 20th century triumphs of the Bureau of Reclamation, is in trouble. Not a lake but a reservoir, its shrinking water level, down 150...

By GREG WALCHER

Few major users are publicly modeling for what would happen if they received little to no Colorado River water, especially over time. Bad idea.

Few major users are publicly modeling for what would happen if they received little to no Colorado River water, especially over time. Bad idea.

By GREG WALCHER

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will release an extra 500,000 acre feet of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to help maintain hydroelectric