Federal government set to impose Colorado River water cuts as reservoir levels hit all-time lows

Water cuts will impact agricultural operations, municipal water supplies, and communities dependent on Colorado River resources across seven states.

For over a century, seven western states have drawn their futures from the Colorado River, trusting an old compact to hold the arithmetic of survival together. Now, with Lake Mead and Lake Powell at historic lows and years of negotiation yielding nothing but deeper division, the federal government is preparing to impose what the states could not agree upon themselves. It is a reckoning long in the making — the collision of a twentieth-century promise with a twenty-first-century drought — and it will force the American West to reckon with what it means to live within the limits of a river that

Federal government set to impose Colorado River water cuts as reservoir levels hit all-time lows

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