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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.

Six Western states along the Colorado River, including Utah, have reached a tentative agreement to cut back on shared water use, but California has not.

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Representatives from six of the seven states that make up the Colorado River Basin announced their agreement on an “alternative framework” that forms the basis of federal planning for the drought-imperiled water source.

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.

A major conflict is brewing between western states that rely on the Colorado River for their water supply, with California holding out.

California — with the largest allocation of water from the river — is the lone holdout. Officials said the state would release its own plan.

California has refused to join other states in a plan to cut water from the dwindling supply in the Colorado River, The Washington Post reported. The other six states in the Colorado River Basin submitted a joint...

The plan would cut water use on the river by roughly a quarter, drying up farms and subdivisions across the Southwest.