Dispatch From Sin City: Colorado River Negotiations Are Stuck in the Mud

The only thing the users of the dwindling Colorado River agreed upon Tuesday was that the situation is dire.

Representatives from the seven U.S. states and Mexico that drink from or whose industries run on Colorado River water are negotiating in Las Vegas this week – as they have every year since 1945. There is pressure to come to an agreement on how to use less of the climate change-stricken river by the end of the conference on Thursday, but all indications point to that not happening.