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In a collection of essays and research summaries, eleven members of the Colorado River Research Group (with eight guest contributors) touch on issues as diverse as plummeting reservoir storage, climate change trends, risk management, agricultural
The Colorado River system is inching closer and closer to the “tripwire” in the 1922 Compact. This is the requirementthat a specifiedvolume of water pass Lee Ferry, the dividing point between the Upper and Lower Basins, every ten- Water consumption in the Colorado River Basin continues to outstrip natural supply, causing steep declines in reservoir storage. This paper by CRRG members Jack Schmidt, John Fleck, Eric Kuhn, and Kathryn Sorensen, in collaboration with Anne