Western states began divvying up the Colorado’s water, building dams and diverting the flow hundreds of miles, to Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and other fast-growing cities. The river now ...

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Five out of seven Colorado River basin states are failing ... said in a statement. “The river is over-allocated by up to 4-million-acre feet a year, and state reductions can be less difficult ...

If the states can come up with new guidelines that fairly share the river, the threat of a compact call, which has long hung over Colorado River management discussions, could evaporate like water ...