Get everybody to the table to come up with Colorado River solutions together.

The U.S. southwest is in a water crisis; it’s a front line of climate change.

Parched is a podcast about people who rely on the river that shaped the West – and have ideas to save it.

Water leaders, agriculture producers and environmentalists met in Grand Junction to discuss many ongoing problems caused by use and drought but few solutions.

The cuts are aimed at Arizona and Nevada, which were expected to help create a plan that would drastically reduce their use of the river. No plan was delivered.

Upper-basin states say further actions to protect critical reservoirs “must include significant actions focused downstream.”

If the conservation easement is finalized, it will end irrigation on 1,800 acres to protect groundwater levels.

The reservoirs on the Colorado River, which starts in the mountains of Colorado and supplies more than 40 million people in the West with water, have hit critically low levels in the last year.

The states in the Colorado River basin have two months to come up with a plan to drastically reduce the amount of water they use. If they don’t, the federal government could step in.

“We are facing the growing reality that water supplies … are no longer stable due to climate change.”

Colorado could be more like Arizona by 2080, new research suggests. The drier and warmer conditions would mean less snow melt making its way from the Rocky Mountains into the Colorado River.

With so little water flowing into the Yampa River below Stagecoach Reservoir, the fish start to stack up and concentrate in low pools of water.

Chairman Manuel Heart of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe said as water issues become more challenging, tribes need to be at the table of the state’s water policy nonprofit.

Douglas County commissioners decided they couldn’t use federal COVID relief money to pump water from the south, but will continue to consider the controversial water project.

Last year, the federal government ordered emergency water releases from Blue Mesa to help protect Lake Powell. There’s worry that will happen again, so the marinas will stay closed.

The money would help the Rio Grande and Republican River basins meet state groundwater sustainability deadlines.