Monday Top of the Scroll: Senators add $4 billion for Colorado River drought relief into Inflation Reduction Act
The massive climate and healthcare package that passed Sunday in the Senate includes $4 billion to help shore up the rapidly dwindling Colorado River and its massive reservoirs. California officials who are pushing to meet an August deadline for huge water savings in Lake Mead and Lake Powell praised the bill’s passage…. Officials with two powerful southern California agencies — the Imperial Irrigation District serving rural farmers and the Metropolitan Water District serving greater Los Angeles — are haggling over 400,000 acre-feet in possible reductions, as reported Thursday by The Desert Sun.
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- Eos: Building Resilience in the Face of a Dwindling Colorado River