What will it take to stabilize the Colorado River?

Kevin G Wheeler^{1

2}, Brad Udall³, Jian Wang⁴, Eric Kuhn⁵, Homa Salehabadi⁴, John C Schmidt⁶

Affiliations

¹ Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Water Balance Consulting, Boulder, CO, USA.
³ Colorado Water Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
⁴ Utah Water Research Laboratory and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
⁵ Independent consultant.
⁶ Center for Colorado River Studies, Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.

Kevin G Wheeler et al. Science. 2022.

. 2022 Jul 22;377(6604):373-375.

doi: 10.1126/science.abo4452. Epub 2022 Jul 21.

Kevin G Wheeler^{1

2}, Brad Udall³, Jian Wang⁴, Eric Kuhn⁵, Homa Salehabadi⁴, John C Schmidt⁶

¹ Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Water Balance Consulting, Boulder, CO, USA.
³ Colorado Water Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
⁴ Utah Water Research Laboratory and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
⁵ Independent consultant.
⁶ Center for Colorado River Studies, Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.

Abstract

A continuation of the current 23-year-long drought will require difficult decisions to prevent further decline.