Drying Up the West: The Colorado River Crisis Hits a Boiling Point The US government's plan to manage the Colorado river crisis has finally been unveiled, but it's a temporary fix at best.
Proposed cuts in water supplied to California, Arizona, and Nevada are little more than a Band Aid on a festering wound – one that threatens the lifeblood of the American West.
The Colorado River has been overdrawn for over a century, supplying huge swaths of agricultural land and cities like Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.