The dwindling Colorado River can’t wait for states to cut water use, experts say

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A group of experts says Western states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis on the Colorado River.

The river’s major reservoirs are less than one-third full, and another dry winter would push reservoirs toward critically low levels.

They say the Trump administration should act to ensure reductions in water use.

The Colorado River’s massive reservoirs are now so depleted that another dry year could send them plunging to dangerously low levels, a group of prominent scholars warns in a new analysis.

The researchers are urging the Trump administration to intervene and impose substantial cutbacks in water use across the seven states that rely on the river — Calif