Cloud Seeding? Pipelines? Trump’s Plan to Save the Dying Colorado River

The Colorado River is drying up. To save it, the Trump administration is considering unusual fixes. Ideas include desalination, building new pipelines, and cloud seeding—a process that forces clouds to produce rain. These methods are expensive and experimental. But with the river shrinking, officials are running out of traditional options. The goal is to keep water flowing to millions of homes and farms across the Southwest.