Biggest News aggregator with 200 million news articles | vimarsana.com
senator, thanks for joining us. so, you're standing in front of the phoenix grand canal in your home state of arizona that your state is in the midst of an unprecedented drought. the federal government just announced new restrictions that can going to cut arizona supply of the colorado river by 21%. what will those cuts mean for arizonans and will they actually do anything to address the core problem, there simply isn't enough water, in part because of the climate crisis? >> well, jake, let me start by saying that these cuts were decided during the last administration. you know, the states working together to come up with a plan to deal with this unprecedented drought. we took cuts when lake mead fell below 1,075 above sea level and now below 1,050 feet. we were anticipating this and the states worked together on this plan. you're right.