{"id":816876,"date":"2026-08-17T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816876\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:40:08","slug":"opinion-new-technologies-can-conserve-the-colorado-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816876\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | New technologies can conserve the Colorado River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"V5TRVGL3ZFGCHO6DFKUMHAARNE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Jim Madaffer, chief executive of the public affairs firm Madaffer Enterprises, is vice chair of the Colorado River Board of California and a board member of the San Diego County Water Authority. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XV3B5ZS53VE4NBGP6ZCBCU7XD4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Colorado River Compact of 1922 is designed to divide a fixed supply of water, but there\u2019s a problem: The river no longer offers one. The Colorado River is facing pressure from years of low water levels that don\u2019t look likely to rise anytime soon. The outdated structure of the compact doesn\u2019t address these problems, forcing seven Western states to search for other ways to fill their reservoirs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Madaffer, chief executive of the public affairs firm Madaffer Enterprises, is vice chair of the Colorado River&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-816876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}