The Crisis on the Colorado River
By John McChesney, Director of the Rural West Initiative With Lake Mead at 39 percent capacity and Lake Powell at around 59 percent after an 11-year drought, there’s no question that there is a crisis...
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“The Sky is Not Falling…Yet,” Concludes a New Study of Colorado River Problems
The Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Montana has just issued its report, “Thinking Like a River Basin.” The report was commissioned by Carpe Diem West, a...
View ArticleRethinking the Colorado River: A Provocative Speech
As part of our Rural West Initiative, we are examining the crisis on the Colorado River, with a close eye on its impact on rural communities, and the past, present, and future of agriculture in the...
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Nevada Water Maven: “I Would Not Declare the Drought Over on the Colorado River”
By John McChesney, Director of the Rural West InitiativePat Mulroy heads up the Southern Nevada Water Authority, which supplies water to the Las Vegas Valley. Las Vegas gets 90 percent of its water...
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How Far Can We Bend the Law of the River?
Photograph by John Fleck With this post we welcome John Fleck, a reporter with 20 years of experience with the Albuquerque Journal covering science and environmental issues. In the past decade, he has...
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Bonus Water on the Colorado River
Lee's Ferry, the dividing line between the Upper and Lower Colorado River basins. (Photo: Lissa Heineman) By John Fleck It is telling that when Los Angeles Times reporter Bettina Boxall went looking...
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Is There More Water to Be Moved From the Colorado Basin?
Photo: Wyoming's Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Green River, by Carfull...Holding onto Summer via Flickr By John Fleck Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Water and Power in April 2010, the...
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What Seven States Can Agree to Do: Deal-Making on the Colorado River
The Central Arizona Project carries Colorado River water to Phoenix. (Photo: John Fleck) By John Fleck As western water leaders converged on Las Vegas in December 2001, Southern California’s...
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What a Difference a Year Makes on the Colorado
Water returns to Boulder Harbor on Lake Mead. But how long will it remain? (Photo: John Fleck) By John Fleck There’s five feet of snow now at Bison Lake, on Colorado’s west slope north of Glenwood...
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Comic: Can Fallowing Crops Help Save the Colorado River?
In this illustrated report, the Bill Lane Center for the American West's research assistant Emily Bookstein (Stanford '11) looks at the largest and longest water transfer of its kind in California...
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