The State of the Colorado River Negotiations with Pat Mulroy

The one and only Pat Mulroy provides a stark reality check and status update on the state of the Colorado River negotiations. And Reese Tisdale from Bluefield Research provides his observations on several recent P3 announcements in the water space.

In this session, you’ll learn about:

• Pat’s update on what’s new with her since she was last on the podcast
• The two proposals made to the Department of the Interior
• How the Six States Proposal and the California Proposal are different
• How recent precipitation affects the negotiations
• How neither proposal reaches the required cut mark
• Where the Six States Proposal pushes the majority of the cuts
• Why the California Proposal is a strict priority based proposal
• How the current acre feet allocation works
• Pat’s guess as to what happens this year in the negotiations
• How the federal government plays into the negotiations
• Why Pat believes a negotiated settlement, rather than a lawsuit, is the most likely outcome
• Pat’s guess as to how the SCOTUS would rule in a lawsuit
• Why paper water rights are worthless if Lake Mead goes to dead pool

Resources and links mentioned in or relevant to this session include:

• Pat’s LinkedIn profile
• The Water Problem on Amazon (book edited by Pat)

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