The Biden administration has evaluated how seven Western states that are reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River could dramatically cut their water use in the basin.
The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday of competing plans for how seven Western states and tribes reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River should cut their use but declined to publicly take a side on the best option.
Water from the Colorado River diverted through the Central Arizona Project fills an irrigation canal on Aug. 18, 2022, in Maricopa, Ariz. A multi-decade drought in the West intensified by climate change, rising demand and overuse have sent water levels at key reservoirs along the river to unprecedented lows. That's forced the federal government to cut some water allocations and to offer up billions of dollars to pay farmers and cities to cut back.
In January, six of the seven U.S. states that rely on the Colorado River — Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado — outlined how they would conserve significantly more water, but California disagreed with the approach and released its own ideas a day later. Among the main differences between the two plans is whether states should account for the vast amount of water lost along the Colorado River basin to evaporation and leaky infrastructure as it flows through the region's behemoth dams and waterways.
The Quechan tribe along the Arizona-California border also opposes that plan because of its priority water rights.
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