Salt Lake Tribune: The drought gripping Utah, Southern California and the rest of the Southwest this century shows no sign of ending. Scientists see it as a permanent condition that, despite year-to-year weather variations, will deepen as temperatures rise, snows dwindle, soils bake and fires burn. That’s grim news for all of us in the West, perhaps most especially for the 10 million residents along the northern stretch of the Colorado River — Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado — whose water …