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20 Sep 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

Shortage Predictions Around Long-term Colorado River Basin Drought

The Colorado River Basin is set to experience continued drought and an increased chance of water shortages by 2025 according to new modeling results from the US Bureau of Reclamation. The basin, which supplies water to 40 million people, is in its 21st year of drought.As reservoir levels decline, this increases the chance - by as much as 12 Percent - that Lake Powell and Lake Mead’s water reserves will fall to critically low levels by 2025 increases...

12 Sep 2020 DENVER CO

US States Challenge Colorado River Diversion Plan

For more than 20 years, negotiations among the seven states that rely on the Colorado River have avoided lawsuits, even as drought and population growth threaten the river’s flows. That may change as a promise to rush the environmental review of a diversion project between the Colorado River’s upper and lower basins has six states suggesting lawsuits challenging the project could topple years of agreements...

3 Mar 2020 PRINCETON NJ, United States

Disappearing Snowpacks Accelerate Diminishment Of Colorado River

New research from the US Geological Survey (USGS) assesses climate change impacts on the shrinking Colorado River which supplies water to approximately 40 million people in six southwest US states and parts of Mexico, and supports about $1 Trillion USD in economic activity.A USGS report emphasises that there is growing potential for severe water shortages throughout the basin due to diminishing snowpack...

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22 Mar 2019 DENVER CO, United States

Western US States Agree Drought Plan For Sharing, Reduction Of Use, Of Troubled Colorado River

Following about 20 years of drought and shrinkage in available Colorado River water resources, negotiators for seven Western states (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California) and federal authorities agreed March 19 to a new sharing plan including voluntary conservation measures...