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More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.

The Colorado River supplies water for more than 36 million people in two countries and seven states, including New Mexico. As river flows and reservoir levels decline due to drought, warming and over-demand, states are wrangling over how to voluntarily conserve water use—before reservoir levels reach critically low levels and trigger mandatory cutbacks. New Mexico […]

As California and six other western states scramble to reach a deal to cut use of Colorado River water, what will the federal government do?

An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nation's largest reservoirs -- Lake Mead and Lake Powell. And amid the overuse of the river and the aridification of the region, the U.S. federal government is preparing to make mandatory water cuts and asking states to devise a plan to save the river basin.

As California and six other western states scramble to reach a deal to cut use of Colorado River water, what will the federal government do? Story from @CalMatters.