Facing a looming deadline, seven western states that have relied on the Colorado River’s water supply for decades have failed to provide a plan to collectively cut water usage from the ailing waterway.
Facing a looming deadline, seven western states that have relied on the Colorado River’s water supply for decades have failed to provide a plan to collectively cut water usage from the ailing waterway. As a result, the Department of Interior may impose major restrictions of its own which states have been trying to avoid.
The U.S. Interior Department has asked the states to voluntarily submit their plans to reduce the amount of water they consume from the river by Jan. 31, as scientists have warned the river’s diminished capacity will lead to a collapse in hydropower and the water supply to farms and cities. Last year, the Biden Administration gave these states the same demand to draft a proposal that would conserve as much as a third of the river. However, the upper basin states argued that they were already using much less than they were entitled to and instead pointed to the lower basin states of Arizona, California, and Nevada, asserting that they must act first.
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