Tensions rise over drought-stricken Colorado River water use
As the Interior Department continues to delay implementing a program to reduce water consumption from the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin, tensions are thickening between the seven states with stakes in the watershed. Now, lawmakers in Congress are fanning the flames as Capitol Hill looks ahead to must-pass, biennial water legislation…. The letter [from Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, urging the Interior Department to withhold funding for Salton Sea reclamation in California] sets the stage for potentially fraught discussions on Capitol Hill as lawmakers turn to the Water Resources Development Act, a bill that reauthorizes key U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water projects, in the next year.
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