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The hard-fought negotiations over how to share the pain from shrinking water supplies will affect tens of millions of people and powerful farming interests.
LAS VEGAS — Representatives from two Lower Basin states on the Colorado River have said they would finally address something that the Upper basin states, including Colorado, have long pressed them to do: Fix the...
The four states are not taking land and they are not buying water rights. But the Colorado River is in trouble and the Upper Basin states are saving water where they can when it comes to consumptive use.
One expert believes the Colorado River Commission made a dire mistake when divvying up the water.
Arizona and its neighbors use most of the Colorado River's water, but those states say they can't save the river without help from upstream.