When you are running low on a precious commodity, there are basically two things you can do: Use less or find more.

Hope that you might be able to do the latter should not be allowed to distract from the necessity of the former.

Recently we have seen examples of both approaches touted by some Utah state leaders in their approach to the growing water shortages here and throughout the American Southwest. Sadly, if predictably, the balance seems unsustainably tilted toward the dream that we can find more water than the reality that we have to find ways to live with less.

The states that live along, and survive on, the Colorado River are stuck at an impasse over how to manage the ever-dryer basin. A Nov. 11 deadline for Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California t

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