{"id":388,"date":"2023-06-27T02:59:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T02:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/?p=388"},"modified":"2025-04-21T08:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T08:51:55","slug":"a-water-agreement-for-the-colorado-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"A Water Agreement for the Colorado River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An agreement has been reached with the Western states that rely on the Colorado River for water. The<br>deal has the Federal government paying water users in California, Arizona, and Nevada to use less water<br>for the next several years. As a result, the government will not have to make unilateral cuts to water<br>usage that had been threatened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Native American tribes, water districts and farmers in the West will be paid to use about 2.3 million<br>acre-feet less water than they have in the past. For reference, an acre foot of water is enough to supply<br>about two thousand households for one year. Half of these cuts need to be implemented by the end of<br>next year. In addition, another 700,000 acre-feet cut would come from California, Nevada, and Arizona.<br>These states agreed to figure out these cuts on their own over the next few months. If these states are<br>not able to identify the additional cuts, the Interior Department says it will withhold water, which could<br>present legal and political obstacles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government did not say how much water users would be paid to reduce their usage. The New York<br>Times reported the agreement is worth about $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0776-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-390\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0776-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0776-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0776-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0776-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0776.jpg 1537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Cited Sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flavelle, Christopher. \u201cA Breakthrough Deal to Keep the Colorado River from Going Dry, for Now.\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, 22 May 2023, www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/22\/climate\/colorado-river-deal.html#:~:text=Under%20the%20agreement%20announced%20Monday%2C%20most%20of%20the,Act.%20Those%20payments%20will%20total%20about%20%241.2%20billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hughes, Trevor. \u201cOfficials Will Pay People to Use Less Water from Colorado River Basin in New Agreement.\u201d <em>USA Today<\/em>, 23 May 2023, www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2023\/05\/22\/states-reach-colorado-river-agreement\/70243180007\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement has been reached with the Western states that rely on the Colorado River for water. Thedeal has the Federal government paying water users in California, Arizona, and Nevada to use less waterfor the next several years. As a result, the government will not have to make unilateral cuts to waterusage that had been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/?p=388\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Water Agreement for the Colorado River&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}