Colorado River agreements: Why California was spared and Arizona wasn’t
Tuesday’s announcement by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that it would require Arizona and Nevada to reduce their annual allocation of water from the Colorado River came as no surprise to most water experts. … The Colorado River supplies water to 40 million people in two countries, seven states, 29 federally recognized Indigenous tribes and 4 million acres of farmland. But its ability to provide that water faces a serious challenge following 22 years of drought and a drier climate that reduced its annual flow from 16.4 million acre-feet to around 14.5 million acre-feet on average since 2000.
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