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The Biden administration is proposing reducing Colorado River water deliveries to Nevada, Arizona and California to prop up levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Read more.

California is pitching priority-based cuts that could force 6 million Arizonans to lose all or most of their Colorado River water supply.

California is pitching priority-based cuts that could force 6 million Arizonans to lose all or most of their Colorado River water supply.

California is pitching priority-based cuts that could force 6 million Arizonans to lose all or most of their Colorado River water supply.

California is pitching priority-based cuts that could force 6 million Arizonans to lose all or most of their Colorado River water supply.

California is pitching priority-based cuts that could force 6 million Arizonans to lose all or most of their Colorado River water supply.

California is pitching priority-based cuts that could force 6 million Arizonans to lose all or most of their Colorado River water supply.

California officials say the state was not consulted as others that use water from the Colorado River drafted a six-state agreement to propose cutbacks. Representatives from Arizona, Utah and Colorado disagree.

Politics and threatened litigation are replacing what is left of the water in the Colorado River as the seven basin states that rely on the Wests largest river try to reach an agreement to cut flows so power generation can continue at Glen Canyon and Hoover dams.

The seven basin states crafted tentative plans for review by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to cut Colorado River water use to keep power generating power at Glen Canyon and Hoover dams. The proposals come as the Colorado River system is drastically over utilized and withering due to more than two decades of drought.