Arizona, Nevada and Mexico affected as federal government steps in after states failed to reach agreement
After western US states failed to reach agreements to reduce water use from the beleagueredRiver, the federal government stepped in on Tuesday, issuing cuts that will affect two states and Mexico.
The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people across seven states in the American west as well as Touton has said the additional reduction is necessary to ensure that water deliveries and hydroelectric power are not disrupted. She was noncommittal on Tuesday about whether she planned to impose those cuts unilaterally if the states could not reach agreement.
A buoy that reads ‘no boats’ lies on cracked dry earth where water once was, as people carry out a boat at Lake Mead, Nevada, in July.The crisis has left the water level at Lake Mead, the nation’s largest man-made reservoir, less than a quarter full. The US Bureau of Reclamation warned the seven states – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming – last year to prepare for emergency cuts. In June, officials said the states must figure out how tobetween states with different priorities for the water they receive, and talks have failed to yield any agreement.
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