Arizona, California and Nevada would share cuts under federal proposal to manage the Colorado River

Colorado River plan spares Wyoming from major cuts

by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile Wyoming and other Upper Colorado River Basin states would be spared mandatory cuts, while the Lower Basin states — Arizona, Nevada and California — face significant water use reductions under a new federal proposal for future management of the beleaguered western water system. The U.S. Department of the Interior issued Friday its final […]

Band-Aid, not a cure: federal Colorado River plan leaves states guessing every two years

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Dire water conditions, missed deadlines and uncertainty on the Colorado River are complicating critical water decisions in California. No single state, water agency or federal official has shown the power, or the will, to break the deadlock among Colorado River basin states over […]

Nevada perderá un tercio de su agua del Río Colorado en los próximos dos años. ¿Qué sigue? - The Nevada Independent

Nevada cederá 50,000 acres‑pie de agua del Río Colorado cada año durante los próximos dos años bajo un reciente plan federal de operaciones, el cual recorta el suministro para tres estados.

Feds plot new plan for the Colorado River’s next 10 years

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its final environmental impact statement on Friday, July 31 — the next step in the process to set guidelines for the federal government’s operations of the Colorado River basin’s two largest reservoirs.  The plan charts a course for the basin’s next 10 years that could lead to significant water cuts in the Lower Basin and opens up the door for more frequent negotiations.  Amid a decades-long drought that h…

Bureau of Reclamation issues Colorado River plan, New Mexico unaffected

The framework requires cuts from Arizona, California and Nevada but exempts New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

Colorado River Blues: Decades of warnings sparked no serious response. Now a megadrought and the climate crisis are forcing gigantic cuts in water allocations to the states that depend on them

“The Colorado (River) Basin, then, is a few years away from permanent drought, and it will have to make do with whatever nature decrees the flow shall be.