The existing plans and commitments to reduce water use don’t add up to even half of the savings that are needed to keep the river flowing.
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The current Colorado River negotiations process includes all five of the most common sources of conflict in any process seeking compromise.
Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.
Southwest states have bought time with an agreement between California, Arizona and Nevada to cut Colorado River water use by about 14%. Now comes the hard part.
Reservoirs and streams are in good shape in California and the Great Basin, but groundwater and ecosystems are another story. And then there’s the Colorado River Basin.
A climate scientist explains the forces behind the summer’s extreme downpours and dangerous heat waves, and why new locations will be at risk in the coming year.
Cities and farmers in the Southwest are resorting to unsustainable strategies to pull in more water. Iran has tried many of these strategies and shows how they can go wrong.
Record heat and low rainfall are drying up water sources shared by the American Southwest and northern Mexico.
Groundwater supplies around the world are under threat as drilling companies bore deeper and deeper wells.
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Director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy, ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University
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Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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University of Arizona
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Professor, Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor of Water Resources Engineering, Oklahoma State University
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Research Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Arizona
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Director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University
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Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University
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Associate Research Professor in Climatology, Desert Research Institute
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Director, Colorado Water Center, Colorado State University
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Professor of Environmental Science and Director, Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona