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A new article “As Colorado River Negotiations Near a Critical Deadline, a New Way of Looking at Risk is Revealing Hard Choices” highlights CADSWES and Reclamation’s new perspectives on river management. 
The piece, recently published by the Water Education Foundation in Western Water, explores how a shift in understanding risk is driving new decisions for the future of the river.

The article takes readers through past and present efforts in modeling and managing the Colorado River, with a particular focus on insights gained from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES). The author had the opportunity to interview key players on the Bureau of Reclamation’s modeling team, who are based at CADSWES, and the conversation also involved experts like Professors Edie Zagona and Joseph Kasprzyk, both of whom have contributed significantly to the development of tools used to evaluate river management strategies.

The article highlights the growing importance of these modeling tools, which are increasingly relied upon in this era of great uncertainty to explore a wide range of possible future conditions - including water usage and climate variability - to provide fresh perspectives on how to balance the competing needs of agricultural, urban and environmental stakeholders.