US West Facing Drought, Unless …
May 12, 2020
Much of the American West is getting relentlessly drier, and the “persistence of the drought conditions, in the Colorado River basin especially, is essentially unprecedented in human history,” says John Fleck, who has long studied and written about water and climate in the region. Yet a review in Issues of Fleck’s book Water is for Fighting Over notes that even amid challenges he finds hope in past collaborative solutions to thorny conflicts arising from differing interests of various states, agricultural and urban areas, and local and regional water users.