Working within Colorado River's 1922 water compact for 21st century focus of annual meeting
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.