If the West’s water use doesn’t change, the region has a year or two before disaster could strike, officials say. Here's what we learned at this week's Colorado River Water Users Convention
You’ll hear talk of demand management, effectively paying people — farmers, for example — not to use water. It’s not a sustainable solution. Rather, Touton said it’s a short-term strategy, one that can help prop up the levels of lakes Powell and Mead.
Kelly mentioned desalination plants, which could make seawater safe for consumption. Or maybe we could pipe water in from another river basin, he said. Thirty Native American tribes depend on the Colorado River. And they own the rights to as much as 30% of the river’s water. But most of those rights have never been legally quantified and cemented.
She didn’t mention the tribes at all, Manuel Heart, chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe pointed out an hour or two later. Despite their massive share of water and disproportionate share of inequities, Native American tribes have far too small of a voice in conversations to save the Colorado River, Heart said.
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