US Imposes Deepest Colorado River Water Cuts Yet for California, Nevada, Arizona

Millions of residents across California, Nevada, and Arizona face potential impacts to water availability for drinking and agricultural use.

For more than a century, the Colorado River has been the lifeblood of the American Southwest, sustaining cities, farms, and power grids across a vast and arid landscape. Now, the federal government has imposed its deepest water cuts yet on California, Nevada, and Arizona, acknowledging what two decades of drought and a century of overallocation have made undeniable: the river can no longer fulfill the promises made in its name. This reckoning, long anticipated by water managers and long deferred by political will, arrives as Lake Mead and Lake Powell sit at historic lows, and tens of millions

US Imposes Deepest Colorado River Water Cuts Yet for California, Nevada, Arizona

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