Biden Administration's Colorado River Review Presents Difficult Water Rationing Choices.
The Biden administration has released an environmental review of operations at the Colorado River's major reservoirs, outlining the difficult choices facing the American West after a two-decade drought and chronic overuse has left these crucial lakes dangerously diminished. The alternatives presented in the review expose the stark decision in coming months: give priority to major farming regions in California and let a large part of the water supply of Phoenix and Los Angeles "get taken virtually to zero," or distribute up to 2 million acre-feet of cuts in water usage in the same percentage across all users in Arizona, California, and Nevada, an approach that would contradict a legal thicket of water rights that date back more than a century.
- Biden administration review of Colorado River highlights tough choices The Washington Post
- Biden Administration Proposes Evenly Cutting Colorado River Water Rations The New York Times
- Los Angeles, Las Vegas and other major cities could face huge water cuts in feds' proposed plan to save the Colorado River CNN
- A year of Arizona's wet weather made a big dent in drought conditions – but how much? FOX 10 News Phoenix
- U.S. lays out options on Colorado River crisis Los Angeles Times
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