… I first met JB (John Brooks Hamby) during the Colorado River Water Users Association conference—affectionately called CRWUA (pronounced “crew-uh”)—at the Paris Casino in Las Vegas last December. It was, at first glance, like any other Vegas conference: morning registration a few feet away from people who’d been up all night playing slot machines, panels held in windowless ballrooms, attendees milling around in lanyards, with a few casino-specific details like fake French boulevards, not to mention “toilettes” instead of restrooms. … CRWUA, as JB put it to me later, “is the prom of the Colorado River.”

Other Colorado River news:

• AZMirror: Arizona delegation pushes largest tribal water rights settlement in US history
• Arizona Republic (Phoenix): Landmark Navajo, Hopi water settlement is reintroduced in Congress with bipartisan support
• The Bond Buyer: Colorado River states running out of time to craft usage plan
• AZMirror: Republican plan to exempt developers from water restrictions fails in Arizona House
• KSNV (Las Vegas, Nev.): Video: Colorado River states push for new water allocation agreements