The Colorado River is vanishing — and the fixes are getting weird ^33.4%

Grist - By Jake Bittle - 6/23/2026, 8:45 AM

Biased Writer Voice 22.8% - Negativity Bias 18.3% - Framing Effect 17.3%

The crisis on the Colorado River is simple: The seven Western states that border the essential waterway use more water than it contains. Chronic overuse has drained its two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, and a two-decade drought cycle has pushed them to the point of collapse. The dream solution to this crisis is an... more