By Hazlehurst, John During an interview with the Pueblo Chieftain's Charles Ashby, Sen. John McCain said that he supported the "renegotiation" of the 1922 interstate compact, which governs the distribution of the waters of the Colorado River among the seven states that border the river.

For John McCain, it was another what-was-I-thinking moment -- but this time on a topic close to home: In a mid-August telephone interview with the The Pueblo Chieftain, the Republican presidential candidate-to-be called for renegotiation of the Colorado River Compact -- with more water in mind for fast-growing Arizona, the state he represents in the Senate, as well as Southern California and Las Vegas, Nev.

By JOHN FLECK Of the Journal Presidential campaigns are both the best way and the worst way to have a national conversation about important public policy questions. They are the best way because they force the conversation.

By Henry Brean By HENRY BREAN REVIEW-JOURNAL Since January, weather forecasters and water managers have been predicting a promising year on the Colorado River. Now the bright outlook has some numbers attached to it. According to the latest projections from the U.S.

By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. Jan. 21--The basic provisions of a historic agreement by seven states to share the Colorado River are simple, but a series of other agreements will be needed to make it work.