Maintaining a healthy Colorado River is essential to ensuring clean and reliable water supplies in the West and protecting critical ecosystems. But for decades, we have taken more water from the river than it can afford to give. That, along with hotter and drier conditions have left it severely depleted.
Accelerating Investment in Resilience for the Colorado River Basin outlines examples of nature-based solutions and conservation projects that can help us better anticipate, prepare for and respond to climate change impacts. This report was prepared with support from American Rivers, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited, and Western Resource Advocates. The development of this report was funded, in part, by the Walton Family Foundation.
