The Colorado River Compact Hasn’t Aged Well
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The Colorado River Compact turns 100 this year, but any celebration is damped down by the drying-up of the big…
The public launch ramp at Antelope Point, late March, 2021
MoreDon’t blame the Upper Basin states
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But the Bureau of Reclamation has regularly and faithfully released to the Lower Basin, from Powell Reservoir, the Colorado River Compact and Mexican Treaty allotments –- 8.23 million acre-feet only dropping a little below those allotments half a dozen times since Powell began to fill in the 1960s.
Bryan Egner US Dept. of energy Glen Canyon Dam 2018
MorePumping up fear along the Colorado River
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Some Colorado River tribulations today remind me of a folk story: A young man went to visit his fiancé and…
Photograph by JC Peacock, courtesy of Unsplash
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