Opinion: The Colorado River Compact hasn’t aged well
The Colorado River Compact turns 100 this year, but any celebration is damped down by the drying-up of the big reservoirs it enabled. The Bureau of Reclamation’s “first-ever” shortage declaration on the river acknowledges officially what we’ve known for years: the Compact and all the measures augmenting it, collectively known as The Law of the River, have not prevented the river’s over-development.
-Written by George Sibley, a contributor to Writers on the Range, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively discussion about Western issues.