Fate of Colorado River hangs in balance as political battle brews
For a life-sustaining natural resource relied on by tens of millions of people and fought over by seven states and two countries, the fate of the Colorado River often flies under the national political radar.
The struggle over how to share the dwindling river has mostly been hashed out in the insular world of water managers, experienced technocrats who often keep their jobs as governors come and go. Alliances among Colorado River Basin states cross partisan lines. And even though the federal government controls the flow from reservoirs, the White House generally stays out of the fray.
That may be changing.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Friday is expected to host most of the governors from the Basin states, a rare if not unprecedented gathering during the past two decades of haggling over how to address the drought and warming temperatures that have drained the country’s biggest reservoirs to near disaster levels, according to participants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/01/30/colorado-river-governors/
Look, if you comment is along the lines that Phoenix, LV etc should be emptied and abandoned please just move along. Farmers are using the bulk of the water, not residents, so you people can have cheap(er) broccoli and romaine. Want to fix the problem? Move farming back to Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas and pay the price at the register. Arizona top crops: lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, melons, tomatoes all made possible by CAP water.
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