NEWS & OPINION
News by Date

• February 26, 2021 - USU Study #6: Alternative Management Paradigms for the Future of the Colorado and Green Rivers. (archived here).
• April 15, 2021 - The Water Report: Saving the Colorado River (demand management). James Eklund.
• April 19, 2021 - The April 2021 24-Month Study was a shocker, but is it too optimistic? Eric Kuhn.
• April 27, 2021 - Pumping up fear along the Colorado River. George Sibley.
• April 29, 2021 - 9th Circuit Revives Navajo Nation's Water Rights Claim Against DOI. Rueters.
• May 4, 2021 - New normals: The Southwest has grown hotter and drier over the past decade, data shows. NOAA 30-year averages since 1901. Ian James of Arizona Republic.
• May 11, 2021 - Arizona Legislature Urges Congress to study feasibility of harvesting Mississippi River floodwaters to replenish Colorado River supply. Rep. Dunn.
• May 13, 2021 - Colorado River water community can solve problems without tossing compacts. Tyrell (response to Sibley).
• May 14, 2021 - The Hoover Dam made life in the West possible. Or so we thought. Timothy Egan in NY Times.
• May 14, 2021 -  9th Circuit rebukes U.S. on Native interests in Colorado River rights. Hank Lacey of Law Week Colorado.
• May 18, 2021 - Arizona's aquifers remain at risk from "unsustainable" pumping. Tony Davis of Arizona Daily Star.
• May 27, 2021 - Predicting the future: Science Moab speaks with Dr. Kevin Wheeler about the future of the Colorado River in Moab Sun News.
• May 27, 2021 - Epic drought tests Hoover Dam as water levels In Lake Mead plummet. Ian James of Arizona Republic.
• June 2, 2021 -  Foreign firms sucking "virtual" water from America's parched Southwest. Diana Kruz of Mother Jones.
• June 2, 2021 - Mega-Dairies: Disappearing wells and Arizona's deepening water crisis. Tony Davis in The Guardian.
• June 2, 2021 - Amid dire Colorado River outlook States plan to tap their Lake Mead savings accounts. Brett Walton of Circle of Blue.
• June 6, 2021 - Dry times, dire consequences, poor runoff, adds to water woes. Dennis Webb of Grand Junction's Daily Sentinel.
• June 10, 2021 - Red Alert: Lake Mead declines to new low as Colorado River crisis deepens. Ian James of Arizona Republic.
• June 13, 2021 - Lake Powell Pipeline targets water promised to Utes in scheme Tribe sees as another racially based scheme. Emma Penrod and special for Salt Lake Tribune.
• June 14, 2021 - Salton Sea, long a disaster, is on the brinK of major collapse. OpEd by Frank Ruiz in The Desert Sun.

News by Subject: Drought Contingency Planning (DCPs)

• Dry times, dire consequences, poor runoff adds to water woes. Dennis Webb of Grand Junction's Daily Sentinel.
• Wall Street eyes billions in Colorado's Water. Howe of New York Times.
• Exclusive hedge funds eye water markets that could net billions ss levels drop in Lake Powell, Podmore of Salt Lake Tribune.
• Here's how to save the Colorado River. Babbitt in Writers on the Range.
• Western Slope needs to suspend irrigation to replenish Lake Powell. Richter in Denver Post.
• Don't hurt farmers to save the Colorado River. Mueller in Writers on the Range.
• Letter to Colorado River District Board. Communication by Richter.
• Saving the Colorado River. James Eklund in THe Water Report.
• Colorado is examining water speculation, and finding it’s ‘all the problems’ in one. Heather Sackett of Aspen Journalism.

News by Subject: Tribal Water

• Is hope on the horizon for Western Tribe's water woes? Teirstein of Grist Online Magazine.
• 9th Circuit revives Navajo Nation's water rights claim against DOI. Rueters.
• 9th Circuit rebukes U.S. on Native interests in Colorado River rights. Hank Lacey of Law Week Colorado.
• Lake Powell Pipeline targets water promised to Utes: Tribe sees another racially based scheme. Emma Penrod and special for Salt Lake Tribune.

News by Subject: River Augmentation

• Arizona Legislature urges Congress to study feasibility of harvesting Mississippi River floodwaters to replenish Colorado River supply. Rep. Dunn.

News by Subject: The Salton Sea (geologic through)

• Salton Sea, long a disaster, is on the brinK of major collapse. OpEd by Frank Ruiz in The Desert Sun.

• Arizona's aquifers remain at risk from "unsustainable" pumping. Tony Davis of Arizona Daily Star.
• The Myth of Safe-Yield: Pursuing the Goal of Safe-Yield Isn't Saving Our Groundwater. Kathleen Ferris of Kyl Center at Morrison Institute; ASU.

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