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“I'm not looking for the federal government to create some magical law or solve all the problems through federal legal systems,” said founding Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado. “We're really more facilitators.”
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While the states missed a mid-August deadline to heed the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's call to conserve 2 million to 4 million acre-feet, they regrouped to reach consensus by the end of January.
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Emails obtained by The Associated Press depict a desire to reach a consensus but persistent disagreement over how much each of the seven basin states could or should give. Ultimately, the mid-August deadline came and went with no deal.
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More questions than answers are surfacing at a conference in Las Vegas about what to do about projected shortages of Colorado River water relied upon by seven U.S. states, Native American tribes and Mexico.
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As drought and steady demand shrink the Colorado River and Lake Powell, Glen Canyon Dam faces an existential threat. It's a rare example of the Southwest's water crisis made visible.
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The Upper Colorado River Commission — comprised of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico — is set to announce details of an extended “System Conservation Pilot Program.”
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A shrinking Lake Powell is causing problems for Page's water utility. A short-term fix is underway, but the town that sits just south of the Utah border says it needs more money for a backup.
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It's the first sign of what could lead to federal action to protect the once-massive but shrinking reservoirs behind them.
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While some will have to make historic cuts, Utah leaders are still “fighting aggressively” for the state’s allocation of Colorado River water.
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Since Glen Canyon Dam was commissioned in 1964 and it first began to fill, Lake Powell has never been like it is right now, at just 27% of its capacity.
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As water levels at Lake Powell continue to drop, the groups say important and old mechanisms on the dam will be useless.
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The latest Utah news for Friday evening, April 22, 2022.