Saying one good winter doesn't change issues facing the Colorado River's water supply, seven states, including Utah, have come to an agreement on conserving millions and millions of gallons of water.
Monday's announcement from the seven Colorado River Basin states comes on the same day that California, Arizona and Nevada proposed a plan to conserve 3 million acre-feet of water through 2026, with at least 1.5 million acre-feet conserved by the end of 2024. An acre-foot of water is roughly enough to serve two to three U.S. households annually.
In exchange for temporarily using less water, cities, irrigation districts and Native American tribes in the three states will receive federal funding, though officials did not say how much they expected to receive. “The goal was so the government didn’t have to issue a mandate” based on priority rights, he said. “It looks like that’s what what’s going to happen.”
Under the new proposal, California would give up about 1.6 million acre-feet of water through 2026 — a little more than half of the total. That's roughly the same amount the state first offered six months ago. It wasn't clear why the other states agreed to a deal now when California didn't offer further cuts. Leaders in Arizona and Nevada didn't immediately say how they'd divide the other 1.4 million acre feet.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said the deal provided a way to “build our reservoirs back up in the near-term,” but added that work remained to address long-term effects of climate change and overallocation. Govs. Gavin Newsom of California and Joe Lombardo of Nevada also praised the agreement. Last summer, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation called for the seven basin states to figure out how to cut their collective use of Colorado River water by about 2 to 4 million acre feet in 2023 alone — roughly 15% to 30% of their annual use — but states blew past that deadline and an agreement remained elusive for several more months.
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