A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River

Photo caption: Blue Mesa is one of Colorado’s largest reservoirs. Photo credit: Susan Vineyard / Alamy. Article by Abrahm Lustgarten. ProPublica – December 22, 2022.

Diminished by climate change and overuse, the river can no longer provide the water states try to take from it.

On a crisp day this fall I drove southeast from Grand Junction, Colorado, into the Uncompahgre Valley, a rich basin of row crops and hayfields. A snow line hung like a bowl cut around the upper cliffs of the Grand Mesa, while in the valley some farmers were taking their last deliveries of water, sowing winter wheat and onions. […]

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