‘It Is Going to Take Real Cuts to Everyone’: Leaders Meet to Decide the Future of the Colorado River

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The annual river conference in Las Vegas is less than celebratory as officials, users and scientists see a grim future for the Colorado but little agreement about how to face it.

By Alex Hager, KUNC

The Colorado River is shrinking at the hands of climate change, and the people who decide its future are caught in a standoff over how to share its water. Putting them all in the same room, then, is bound to breed some tension.

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