Tag: Compact
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Colorado River Compact turns 100
Seven states signed the historic Colorado River Compact a century ago this week. The Compact provided a framework for fair sharing of the then-estimated 17.5 million annual acre-feet of water flowing past Lee Ferry, Arizona, located between Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and the Grand Canyon. The agreement has been hotly debated in 2022 as…
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Tipping Point: A Call for Change on the Colorado
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One hundred years of the Colorado River Compact — the agreement that divides 15 million acre feet of water each year among the seven states of the Colorado River basin and Mexico — has wrecked on the shoals of climate change and 22 years of drought. It doesn’t work anymore. What happens when the law…