Governing like a river basin: Options for expanded stakeholder engagement in the Colorado River Basin

The December 2011 policy brief analyzes examples of stakeholder processes in four large U.S. river basins facing long-term management challenges, and discusses what these approaches might look like on the Colorado.

The work anticipates a pending Bureau of Reclamation study on the Colorado River Basin, due in 2012. That study willanalyze the range of options and opportunities for bringing long-term water supply and demand into balance in a basin that faces a drier future due to climate change.