Opinion: Colorado’s intensifying drought conditions call for urgent collaboration
The entire Colorado River Basin within Colorado is experiencing “extreme” or “exceptional” drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The next few months are predicted to be warmer and drier than normal, which will further reduce snowpack runoff into our reservoirs even with a normal snowpack this winter. Unfortunately, 2020 is not an anomaly; rather, it is a harbinger of a future to which we must adapt.
–Written by Russell George, director of the Interbasin Compact Committee and a former director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, and John Stulp, a farmer and rancher in southeastern Colorado who previously served as Colorado’s Commissioner of Agriculture.