Living with less water in the U.S. Southwest is the focus this week for state and federal water administrators, tribal officials, farmers, academics and business representatives meeting about the drought-stricken and overpromised Colorado River.
Officials from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are focusing on how to use at least 15% less water next year, or have restrictions imposed on them.
“Flows during the past 23-year period … are the lowest in the past 120 years and the lowest in more than 1,200 years,” Bunk told the webinar audience. The deadline for public submissions is Dec. 20 for a process expected to yield a final report by summer. Reclamation water managers responded with plans to hold back more water in Lake Powell but warned that Lake Mead water levels would drop.
This year’s meeting of water recipients begins Wednesday at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. The event theme, “A New Century for the Colorado River Compact,” marks 100 years since a 1922 interstate agreement divvied water shares among interests in the seven states now home to 40 million people and millions of farmed acres.
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