BREAKING: For the first time in years all seven states in the Colorado River Basin agree on a plan to save water from their drying region.
With this agreement, the states have narrowly avoided a federal deadline, after which they could have lost control over their own future. Federal officials said in their release Monday that they’d pause their parallel effort to force cuts in order to study the states’ proposal.
Still, this plan would only save about half of the smallest amount of water the federal government sought to conserve. As written, the states’ plan would conserve 3 million acre-feet over the next three years, according to Interior’s announcement. Money from the Inflation Reduction Act would be used to pay those who are foregoing their water use.
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