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The funding comes as key reservoirs on the Colorado River hit record lows and booming Western cities and industries fail to adjust their water use to increasingly shrinking supplies.
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California officials say the state was not consulted as others that use water from the Colorado River drafted a six-state agreement to propose cutbacks. Representatives from Arizona, Utah and Colorado disagree.
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The Bureau of Reclamation is responding to a request from Utah and its neighbors and suspending the releases from the 3rd-largest reservoir on the Colorado River that were propping up Lake Powell.
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Agriculture uses between 70% and 80% of the Colorado River’s water, and ideas for reducing that have long been contentious.
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Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico are asking the Bureau of Reclamation to pause the water releases from Flaming Gorge Reservoir that are helping prop up Lake Powell.
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The Bureau of Reclamation is scrambling to keep hydropower generators running in Glen Canyon Dam.
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The state's plan comes a day after the other six states in the Colorado River basin released their own proposal for cuts.
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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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Policymakers from the seven states that use water from the Colorado River gathered in Las Vegas to discuss its future as climate change shrinks supply.
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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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Officials from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are focusing this week on how to use at least 15% less water next year, or have restrictions imposed on them by the federal government.