Utah Sen. Mitt Romney is joining a bipartisan group of Western senators pushing a bill that seeks to reduce Colorado River salinity. They say it will 'provide greater support' for the river's water users.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney is joining a bipartisan group of Western senators pushing a bill that seeks to reduce Colorado River salinity, which they contend will "provide greater support" for the river's water users.Colorado River Salinity Control Fix Act
The original bill set up services like the Bureau of Reclamation's Basin States Program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Environmental Quality Incentives Program that helped farmers, ranchers and other water users mitigate naturally-occurring salinity in the Colorado River. Higher salinity levels can impact crop yields and kill trees in the river basin, and even limit which types of crops can be planted, if at all, the senators say.
"Reducing the salinity of the Colorado River benefits Utah — and its sister Basin states — by ensuring that we meet water quality standards while increasing the economic opportunities and infrastructure of our local communities," Romney said in a statement Wednesday. "I'm proud to cosponsor this bipartisan legislation, which is a long-sought priority for Utah, to help our state shoulder the costs of desalinizing the Colorado River.
The proposed legislation has the support of the leaders of both Utah Colorado River Commissioner Gene Shawcroft and Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum executive director Don Barnett, who each say the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program is a vital tool over the years.
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