Experts Share Insights on the Ongoing Colorado River Negotiations

Even as the threat of dead pool on Lakes Powell and Mead and loss of hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam now looms mere acre-feet away, another federal deadline came to pass this January with no consensus on allocation or conservation among the Colorado River basin states.

Ten Across has been following the negotiations and challenges of the drying Colorado River over the last few years, hosting engaging and illustrative dialogues among various stakeholders and advisers of the river both on air and at Ten Across summits including the recent summit in Houston. Given that the situation is more dire than ever, we decided it was apt time to reconvene three closely involved experts on the continued water crisis.

In this episode, Ten Across founder Duke Reiter speaks with the 2019 Drought Contingency Plan signatory, James Eklund; U.S. Commissioner of the Upper Colorado River Commission, Anne Castle; and former chair of the California State Water Board, Felicia Marcus about the diffcult legal and cultural struggle among senior and junior water users. A struggle deeply engrained in the history of the river and one that is currently reaching an apex ahead of the Bureau of Reclamation's Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement this summer.