For Star subscribers: There's consensus among water policy experts that change is needed in the management of the dwindling Colorado River, but not over the need to rework the compact that divides water among Western states.
Tony Davis Management of the depleted Colorado River needs an overhaul, speakers at a University of Arizona-sponsored conference agreed.
People are also reading… River has been over-allocatedBut those water right awards have proven wildly unrealistic, particularly in the face of the drought and climate change patterns that have dominated this region since 2000. Average annual river water supplies since then have barely topped 12 million acre-feet, with recent years seeing even lower flows in the 10 million range.
"That puts almost all of the risk of climate change on the Upper Basin," Kuhn said."There's a good reason for that. Ninety percent of the flow of the river at the mouth is derived from upper basin." Saying all options need to be on the table, Sorensen noted the current allocations lead to outcomes in which"you know what you have the right to get. You know whose water you need to buy out if you're lower in priority for it.
"What current system of prior appropriation does, it provides absolute certainty," Sorensen said."It forces those who have lower priority rights to go seek out arrangements" to get rights from someone else. This debate has confounded river water users and experts for many years now as the Colorado's supplies have dwindled.
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