Daniel Craig McCool – The Conversation

Sprinklers water a lettuce field in Holtville, California with Colorado River water. Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images

April 13, 2023

The Colorado River drought crisis: 5 essential reads

Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation

Two decades of drought have reduced the river’s flow by one-third compared to historical averages. The Biden administration is considering mandatory cuts to some states’ water allocations.

The white ‘bathtub ring’ around Lake Powell, which is roughly 110 feet high, shows the former high water mark. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

February 6, 2023

As climate change and overuse shrink Lake Powell, the emergent landscape is coming back to life – and posing new challenges

Daniel Craig McCool, University of Utah

Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape.

Sign at a boat ramp on Lake Mead, near Boulder City, Nevada, Aug. 13, 2021. The lake currently is roughly two-thirds empty. AP Photo/John Locher

November 17, 2021

As climate change parches the Southwest, here’s a better way to share water from the shrinking Colorado River

Daniel Craig McCool, University of Utah

A Western scholar proposes allocating water from the Colorado River based on percentages of its actual flow instead of fixed amounts that exceed what’s there – and including tribes this time.

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