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EXPLAINER: Winners, losers in water cuts for Western states

People in Arizona and Nevada won’t face bans on watering their lawns or washing their cars despite water shortages on the Colorado River

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As talks on Colorado River water falter, US government imposes new restrictions

LOS ANGELES — After Colorado River Basin states failed to meet a deadline for emergency drought reductions Tuesday, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced new emergency water cuts for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico as the nation’s two largest reservoirs decline to perilously low levels.

Los Angeles Times

US government steps in over drought-savaged Colorado River with water cuts for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico

Lake Mead and Lake Powell at historic lows, with combined 28 per cent capacity

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As talks on Colorado River water falter, US government imposes new restrictions

LOS ANGELES — After Colorado River Basin states failed to meet a deadline for emergency drought reductions, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said it would continue to work with affected states and tribes to reach an agreement.

Los Angeles Times

Unprecedented shortage forces new water cuts on Colorado River

A climate change-induced megadrought is depleting the Colorado River and its reservoirs.

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U.S. says drought-stricken Arizona and Nevada will get less water from Colorado River

U.S. officials announced Tuesday that the two states, which rely on water from the Colorado River, will face more water cuts as they endure extreme drought.

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Colorado River cuts expected for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico

Federal officials on Tuesday are expected to announce water cuts that would further reduce how much Colorado River water some users in the seven U.S. states reliant on the river and Mexico receive

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Tensions grow over lack of a water deal for the shrinking Colorado River

LOS ANGELES — Two months ago, federal officials took the unprecedented step of telling the seven states that depend on Colorado River water to prepare for emergency cuts next year to prevent reservoirs from dropping to dangerously low levels.

Los Angeles Times

Deadline looms for drought-stricken states to cut water use

Seven states in the U.S. West are facing a deadline from the federal government to come up with a plan to use substantially less Colorado River water in 2023

The Independent UK

Southwest stares down steep water cuts deadline with Colorado River at drought tipping point

States that rely on the river basin for water supplies have until Tuesday to outline plans or the Biden administration will step in.

Axios

Sinema’s last-minute push on Democrats’ climate bill added $4 billion to combat Western drought

WASHINGTON — When Sen. Joe Manchin III and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer landed a surprise agreement on a health care, climate and tax bill last month, all but one Senate Democrat accepted the deal rather than risk collapse with further negotiation.

Los Angeles Times

The West’s most important water supply is drying up. Soon, life for 40 million people who depend on the Colorado River will change

PAGE, Ariz. — White sandstone cliffs create a ring around Lake Powell in contrast to the honey- and red-colored desert rock nearby. Evidence that water once, not all that long ago, filled America’s second-largest reservoir.

The Denver Post

Arizona golf courses use more water than they’re supposed to. Nothing is stopping them.

A large number of Arizona golf courses have repeatedly exceeded state assigned water allotments.

USA Today Sports Media Group

They sounded alarms about a coming Colorado River crisis. But warnings went unheeded

LOS ANGELES — The Colorado River is approaching a breaking point, its reservoirs depleted and Western states under pressure to drastically cut water use.

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Lake Mead: shrinking waters uncover buried secrets and grisly finds

Sunken boat from second world war and at least three sets of human remains found in largest US reservoir – and more could follow

The Independent UK

Body near Lake Mead swimming site 3rd to surface since May

Authorities say another body has surfaced at Lake Mead — this time in a swimming area where water levels have dropped as the Colorado River reservoir recedes because of drought and climate change

The Guardian - US

As drought shrivels Lake Powell, millions face power crisis

With water levels falling ‘lower than thought possible’ at Glen Canyon dam, energy production could halt as soon as July 2023

France 24

Mega drought in US spells trouble for Hoover Dam reservoir

Millions of gallons of Colorado River water hurtle through the Hoover Dam every day, generating electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes.

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Los Angeles Times

Where a river no longer meets the sea, a pulse of water revives part of Mexico’s dry delta

EJIDO FRANCISCO MURGUÍA, Mexico — Beside a canal that runs through farmland, rushing water roared through an irrigation gate and flowed down a concrete culvert toward a wetland fringed with cottonwoods and willows.

Los Angeles Times

As Colorado River reservoirs drop, Western states urged to ‘act now’

With the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs continuing to drop to new lows, the federal government has taken the unprecedented step of telling the seven Western states that rely on the river to find ways of drastically cutting the amount of water they take in the next two months.

Axios

Drastic water cuts needed to avert Colorado River supply crisis in 2023, senators told

"We are 150 feet from 25 million Americans losing access to the Colorado River," water official tells Senate.

Los Angeles Times

Major water cutbacks loom as shrinking Colorado River nears ‘moment of reckoning’

LOS ANGELES — As the West endures another year of unrelenting drought worsened by climate change, the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined so low that major water cuts will be necessary next year to reduce risks of supplies reaching perilously low levels, a top federal water official said Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Biologists try to save ancient fish as Colorado River fades

A key fish that has dwelt in the Colorado River since ancient times, and whose presence indicates a healthy river, is now up against a threat from a giant dam above

Benzinga

Tesla Battery Permit For Giga Texas Challenged By Environmentalists: Here's What They Want

A group of environmentalists has requested the city of Austin to withhold Tesla Inc’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) permits for building a battery cathode facility near the Colorado River, local news publication Austonia reported citing a letter fr

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: How cities in the West have water amid drought

The sight of fountains, swimming pools, gardens and golf courses in Western cities like Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego and Albuquerque can seem jarring as drought and climate change tightening their grip on the region

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