Federal plan cuts Colorado River water for Arizona, California, Nevada through 2036

Millions of residents, farmers, tribal nations, and industries face water shortages with potential impacts including higher prices, agricultural production losses, and mandatory conservation measures.

For more than a century, seven Western states have drawn from the Colorado River as though its waters were inexhaustible — a compact written in a wetter era, against a river that was already being asked for more than it could give. Now, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has proposed mandatory cuts of up to 3 million acre-feet for Arizona, California, and Nevada through 2036, as Lake Powell and Lake Mead sink to record lows and the turbines at Glen Canyon Dam edge toward silence. The plan is not a solution so much as a reckoning — a decade-long pause in which 40 million people, their farms, their

Federal plan cuts Colorado River water for Arizona, California, Nevada through 2036

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