Colorado River states clash on ways to absorb shortages
The Nevada Appeal, the Silver State's oldest continuously run newspaper, first published on May 16, 1865.
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The Nevada Appeal, the Silver State's oldest continuously run newspaper, first published on May 16, 1865.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The seven U.S. states that draw water from the Colorado River basin are suggesting new ways to determine how the increasingly scarce resource is divvied up when the river can’t provide what it historically promised.
Negotiators from states along the river provided separate proposals after they couldn't agree on how to share its dwindling supply.
The National Weather Service is predicting that snowpack will bounce back, just not as much as hydrologists saw in 2023.
Lower Basin states of Arizona, Nevada and California want what they say is a more equitable way of distributing any cuts. Meanwhile, the Upper Basin states of Wyoming, Colorado, New