Ex-Vegas Water Chief Pat Mulroy Urges ‘Mind Shift’ on Colorado River
From The Desert Sun:
“Pat Mulroy, who recently retired after more than two decades as Las Vegas’ influential water chief, is calling for people and water managers across the West to shift their thinking about the Colorado River and focus on shared stewardship of its declining flows. …
“As she received a lifetime achievement award from the Urban Water Institute at a conference in Palm Springs on Thursday, Mulroy emphasized that plummeting water levels in Colorado River reservoirs could become fertile territory ‘for a lot of chest-beating’ but should instead bring together water users along the river from Wyoming to Mexico.”
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