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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.

Seven states that depend on Colorado River for water failed to meet a Jan. 31 federal deadline for a water consumption reduction plan.

On January 30, six of the seven Colorado River basin states jointly released a proposal to the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) in response to that agency’s January 31 deadline to

Six of the seven states that use water from the Colorado River proposed a way for the federal government to cut back on water use and protect dropping water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

On Monday, Colorado and five other Colorado River compact states reached a plan (which they called "an alternative framework") to cut usage of the river,

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Six of the seven states that use water from the Colorado River proposed a way for the federal government to cut back on water use and protect dropping water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

Most notable about what was suggested by Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada in the Jan. 31 letter to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is that the lower

Low water levels could threaten hydropower generation and normal operations at Hoover and Glen Canyon Dams.

The seven states that depend on the Colorado River missed a federal deadline Tuesday to reach a regionwide consensus on how to sharply reduce water use, raising the likelihood of more friction as the West grapples with how to rely less on the shrinking river.