THE COLORADO RIVER DOES NOT REACH 2030
A Thought Exercise in Western Water, from the Near Future
Preface
What if the western US snowpack keeps declining — and the institutions keep failing at the same rate?
What follows is a work of near-future fiction. It is not a prediction. It is a scenario built from conditions that are measurable today: Lake Powell is at 26% capacity and falling, snowpack at record lows, seven states deadlocked on water allocati…
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