January 1, 2008--Colorado compact (Cortez Journal)
Photo courtesty of Journal/Sam Green
Water officials worry that Colorado is running out of water, and they are delicately working out ways to handle a “call” from downstream — the possibility that Arizona, Nevada or California will demand more water from Colorado and other upriver states. A call could clamp down on most of the people who use the Colorado River’s main channel and also its tributaries, like the San Juan, Animas and Dolores rivers. Few think a call is likely within the next five years. But Deputy State Engineer Ken Knox is concerned enough that he’s drafting rules on how to handle one.
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