Jim Madaffer, chief executive of the public affairs firm Madaffer Enterprises, is vice chair of the Colorado River Board of California and a board member of the San Diego County Water Authority.
The Colorado River Compact of 1922 is designed to divide a fixed supply of water, but there’s a problem: The river no longer offers one. The Colorado River is facing pressure from years of low water levels that don’t look likely to rise anytime soon. The outdated structure of the compact doesn’t address these problems, forcing seven Western states to search for other ways to fill their reservoirs.
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