A century-old practice allows people to use more than their legal share of Colorado River water. Researchers say it should stop. ...Middle East

For a few weeks each spring, Kathleen Curry, a rancher and former state lawmaker, gets to use more than her legal share of Colorado’s water. The extra water is vital for ranchers in her area, she said. “Everybody puts on as much water as they can because they know, after the runoff is over, there won’t be enough,” said Curry, who raises cattle and hay in Gunnison County. But new research suggests taking that extra water away to help stabilize the overstressed Colorado River Basin. When there’s an abundance of water, people can use more than their legal share thanks to a quirk of water law called the free river condition. The researchers, primarily from the University of Virginia, c

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