The Colorado River provides a significant amount of the water that makes life in the West possible. More than 40 million people depend on it to keep their farms flourishing and taps flowing.
Finally, the bureau said that if the states didn't put together a plan by Jan. 31, it would come up with one on its own.On Monday all the states but California submitted a
suggesting overall decreases. It took into account evaporation along the water's flow, which meant California's water allowance would have taken a big cut.the plan and instead said it has senior water rights. It proposed some cuts, mainly targeting states with fewer legal rights to the water, but aimed to preserve the majority of its more than century-old water rights.
While the state as a whole gets only about 15% of its water from the Colorado, that water is one-third of what's used by southern California, home to 23 million people.What's 'dead pool'? A big concern has been the drastically falling levels at two of the West's biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell and , which have fallen to one-third their capacity. The fear is that they could hit what's known as"dead pool," with catastrophic consequences.
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