Drought is draining the West’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, to historic low levels. Forecasts say climate change will make things worse. Headlines warn of water shortages and cutbacks. Members of Congress are moving to protect their states’ supplies.
Yet if war is really imminent, why are the region’s water managers doing the same thing they have done for years: tinkering?
Water managers in Arizona, California, Nevada and Mexico are developing a plan that would voluntarily reduce water allocations from the Colorado River to those three states and Mexico. They hope to have it in place in time to avoid steeper, mandatory cuts that could begin as soon as 2018.
Would their plan change everything? Not even close.
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