Western States Buy Time With a 7-Year Colorado River Drought Plan

Facing a hotter, drier future, seven states recently signed an extensive new water management agreement for the Colorado River reservoirs

Western States Buy Time With a 7-Year Colorado River Drought Plan

(Photo courtesy of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)

As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem — not enough water. On May 20, federal officials and leaders from seven states signed the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan, a sweeping new water...

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