A presentation by: 

Anne Castle, Senior Fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment at the University of Colorado Law School; Former U.S. Commissioner at the Upper Colorado River Commission; Former Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior

This presentation will review the hydrologic reality of diminishing flows in the Colorado River Basin, together with our persistent use of more water than nature supplies and the paltry levels of reservoir storage remaining to offset that gap. We’ll discuss the federal government’s new rules for operating the river over the short term and how they address (or don’t) the situation we face. Some new and different concepts for sharing the river among the 40 million people it serves will round out this presentation.