Upper Basin states are not doing their part to conserve dwindling water supplies, writes Kyle Roerink.
Sasha Reed, an ecologists with the United States Geologic Survey navigates a field of debris along the Colorado River in Cataract Canyon during a research trip to study the changes brought on by a receding Lake Powell as one of the planet’s ecosystems.Seven Western states and their leaders — all depending on water from the Colorado River — remain divided.
The brunt of low flows has been borne by the Lower Basin states of Arizona, Nevada and California. Thanks to a series of agreements between 2007 and 2021, by the end of this year the three states will curtail their river use by more than 1 million acre-feet — 325 billion gallons. But it’s likely these cuts won’t change much.
More discouraging is that in 2016, the interstate collective of Upper Basin officials, known as the Upper Colorado River Commission, officially decided toSome of the largest projects on the Upper Basin’s wish list include the Lake Powell Pipeline, Green River Block Exchange, Wolf Creek Reservoir, and the Fontenelle Dam expansion. These proposed projects would drain billions of gallons from the system, reports the nonprofit Save the Colorado.
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