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Arizona, California and Colorados plan for conserving at least 3 million acre feet of water will be more effective at staving off the threat of two primary Colorado River reservoirs falling to "critical elevations" over the next three years than current guidelines, the Bureau of Reclamation said Wednesday.

The Lower Colorado Basin States comprised of California, Arizona, and Nevada agreed to voluntarily conserve three million acre-feet of water over the next three years. It is a step toward cooperatively modernizing certain aspects of the Colorado River Compact of 1922.

The Biden Administration laid out two options for ways Western states and tribes that rely on the Colorado River could cut their water use.