Colorado River Crisis Threatens 40M Westerners as Drought Deepens

Potential displacement and economic hardship for millions across Western cities and agricultural regions if water cuts deepen without agreement.

For a century, the Colorado River has quietly underwritten the American West's ambitions — its cities, its farms, its sense of limitless possibility. Now, as climate change shrinks the snowpack that feeds it and forty million people continue to draw from its diminishing flow, the river is forcing a long-deferred reckoning. Federal agencies and three states are racing to negotiate emergency measures before governing rules expire this summer, but the deeper question is whether a region built on assumptions that were never quite true can reimagine itself before the water runs out.

Colorado River Crisis Threatens 40M Westerners as Drought Deepens

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