The crisis along the Colorado River is coming to a head as seven state negotiators fail to deliver an agreement on how to manage it over the next 20 years.

A host of powerful interests want to take more out of the system rather than prepare for drier times," the authors wrote, adding that “human intransigence” is a bigger threat to the river than climate change.

To be fair the latter is caised by the forner so it’s all human intransigence