Friday Top of the Scroll: As Colorado River negotiations near a critical deadline, a new way of looking at risk is revealing hard choices
After four years of contentious negotiations, the seven states that rely on water from the Colorado River are racing against the clock to reach agreement on a new long-term operating strategy for the river’s dams and reservoirs …. But the double whammy of climate change and a now-quarter-century-long drought has strained relationships between the seven states that share the dwindling river …. As a result, (the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) has quietly abandoned the effort to rely on best guesses about the river’s future via traditional modeling methods. Now, it’s bringing a radically different style of thinking to the negotiating table: Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, or DMDU.
Other Colorado River news:
- KPBS (San Diego): Experts call for immediate cuts to water use from the Colorado River
- The Acorn (Agoura Hills, Calif.): With reservoirs shrinking, Southern California braces for hard choices on most precious resource
- Colorado Politics (Denver): The future of Colorado water: How the fight over Shoshone water rights affects the Front Range
- Arizona Capitol Times (Phoenix): Opinion: Efficiency, not water wars, can save the Colorado River
- Craig Press (Colo.): Opinion: New energy for the Headwaters of the Colorado Initiative
