Feds May Wade Into Colorado River Debate
February 4, 2019
With California and Arizona fighting over how states should divvy up water from the drought-stricken Colorado River, the federal government announced that it might impose its own plan. But in what could prove a silver lining, a longtime water manager recently noted in Issues, in reviewing a book on the complexities of managing western rivers as they transition from an era of plenty to an era of scarcity, that conflict has often been a necessary precondition to compromise or investments in solutions. Stay tuned.