On May 22, 2023, the three states unveiled a “Lower Basin Plan” to cut 3 million acre-feet by 2026, which is a fraction per year of what the Bureau of Reclamation had originally demanded. -
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsIt sounds like an advertisement for bottled water: The flowing Colorado River emerges high in the Rocky Mountains, from snows untouched by man. It tumbles down through seven states and the two largest reservoirs in the country, lakes Powell and Mead, crossing some 1,450 miles. Along the way, it winds through the Grand Canyon, a project 6 million years in the making.
The Colorado River – or more accurately, the human development that draws on the resource – has run at a deficit for decades. Forty million people rely on Colorado River water for drinking water, farm irrigation or hydroelectric power. Major Western cities such as Los Angeles and Phoenix draw heavily on the resource and its annual rhythms.
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