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The Colorado River Upper Basin, comprised of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, and the Lower Basin, made up of California, Arizona and Nevada, have been quarreling for months over seemingly ...
The Colorado River, which provides water for about 15% of our country’s agriculture, is shrinking, and the current agreement that divvies up the water usage ends in 2026.
The current system by which Colorado River water is allocated expires at the end of 2026, and water users are scrambling to reach an agreement. ... provided an update for stakeholders and the ...
There's no shortage of plans to protect the water source that 40 million people rely on, but states are battling over who should bear the brunt of the sacrifice.
Read more:'We can do better': Western states divided over long-term plans for Colorado River water. The Colorado River provides water for cities from Denver to Los Angeles, 30 Native tribes and ...
The Colorado River (Spanish: Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river, the 5th longest in the United States, drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states.
To that end, the four upper basin river states of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming submitted their proposal for how future cuts should be divvied up among the seven states to the federal ...
The Biden administration has announced several options for new long-term rules for managing the Colorado River's overburdened water supply. Here, Hoover Dam stands in front of Lake Mead in May 2022.