Saving For a Dry Day profiles the efforts to develop the Arizona
water bank and the “Offstream Storage of Colorado River Water and
Interstate Redemption of Storage Credits in the Lower Division
States,” the criteria designed to allow for interstate water
banking. The article includes historical information as it
pertains to the Law of the River and the Central Arizona Project
– critical elements to the proposal – as well as the Secretary’s
role. It also examines the Upper Basin perspective on the
proposal and environmental and Tribal concerns.
Angling for Answers: The Quest to Save the Colorado’s Endangered
Fish examines the recovery efforts being taken to save the
Colorado River’s four native endangered fish species: the
razorback sucker, the bonytail, the humback chub and the Colorado
pikeminnow. The article also examines reasons for the decrease in
populations and the efforts being taken through both the Upper
Colorado River Recovery Implementation Program, as similar
program on the San Juan River and the recovery efforts in the
lower reaches of the river in the Multi-Species Conservation
Program.
