The Trump administration is proposing a jaw-dropping $609 million cut to the massive Central Utah Project, which supplies water to millions of people in northern Utah. … “The Budget provides $1.2 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project. The Budget reduces funding for programs that have nothing to do with building and maintaining water infrastructure, such as habitat restoration. Instead, the Budget focuses Reclamation and the Central Utah Project on their core missions of maintaining assets that provide safe, reliable, and efficient management of water resources throughout the western United States,” the reduction item says.

Other Colorado River Basin news:

• Utah News Dispatch: Funding for water and wildlife conservation in Utah now on Trump’s list of budget cuts
• The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah): Despite strong start to winter and a ‘Miracle March,’ runoff into Lake Powell forecasted to be lowest in years
• Las Vegas Review-Journal (Nev.): Lake Mead at risk of reaching crisis levels with new projections
• E&E News by Politico: Reclamation strikes deal to conserve more Colorado River flows​
• Montrose Daily Press (Colo.): Colorado Public Works resumes Aquatic Nuisance Species sampling efforts in the Colorado River