Climate change is ravaging the Colorado River. There’s a model to avert the worst.

Some experts on Western water point to the Yakima plan as a model for what needs to happen on the Colorado right now.

(Ruth Fremson | The New York Times) An irrigation canal, lined with concrete to conserve water, in the Roza Irrigation District, in Washington State, on July 14, 2022. Success in the Yakima River Basin in Washington holds lessons for the seven states at war over water in the American West.

Climate change is ravaging the Colorado River. There’s a model to avert the worst.

Some experts on Western water point to the Yakima plan as a model for what needs to happen on the Colorado right now.

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