Monthly Archives: July 2019

California

Western states buy time with a 7-year Colorado River drought plan, but face a hotter, drier future

By Brad Udall, senior research scientist, Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University; Douglas Kenney, senior research associate and director, Western Water Policy Program, University of Colorado; John Fleck, Professor of Practice in water policy and governance and director, Water Resources Program, University of New Mexico | July 25, 2019

After 19 years of unprecedented low flows, the nation’s two largest reservoirs — lakes Mead and Powell — collectively contain only 40 percent as much water as they held in 2000.