Infrastructure bill seen as way to pay farmers to cut water use
Four states in the drought-wracked West considering whether to pay farmers to cut their water use see federal infrastructure legislation as a possible revenue source. The $550 billion bipartisan legislation approved in the Senate includes $25 million for the four states—Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming…. Paying people to cut water use is an option under a 2019 drought contingency plan the four upper division states signed with three states in the Lower Colorado River Basin — Arizona, California and Nevada.