On the Colorado River the feds carry a big stick. Will the states get hit?
A summer deadline approaches for state leaders to agree on how to cut their water use from the Colorado River.
Source: wyomingpublicmedia.org
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Congress may continue to pay farmers to use less water as Colorado River pleas intensify
Colorado’s U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper is pushing legislation that aims to make federal funding available to pay farmers and ranchers to voluntarily use less water by leaving their fields temporarily ...
Source: durangoherald.com
Senator Hickenlooper addresses the Colorado River crisis
At the end of June, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation (FBR) gave the seven states along the Colorado River 60 days to make serious cuts to water usage or the bureau would do it for them.
Source: krdo.com
Responding to federal pressure, Upper Colorado River states seek to revive conservation program
States in the Upper Colorado River Basin are not ready to commit to federal water conservation targets, but are seeking to revive a conservation program first launched in 2014.
Source: ksut.org
Hickenlooper-Barrasso bill aims to reauthorize Colorado River water conservation plan
U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and John Barrasso are teaming up on legislation to help the upper basin states of the Colorado River in their quest to meet the demands by
Source: gazette.com