Author: Roy Johnston

Roy Johnston “Deal is reached to keep Colorado River from going dry, for now,” read the headline of a New York Times article last May 25. It implies Washington and river basin bureaucrats saved the Colorado River in a last-minute meeting. This miracle was achieved by agreeing to pay California farmers and American tribes $1.2…

Roy Johnston On June 22 the federal government issued a mandate to the seven Colorado River states: give us a plan or in 60 days we will begin rationing water. Day 60 was Aug. 20. No actionable plan was delivered. The key word is, as usual, “actionable.” The upper Basin states delivered a plan, which…