NEW: Arizona, California and Nevada can try to negotiate with the federal government but cutting a deal with the drying Colorado River is a far more difficult proposition, water experts say.
a decades-long drought and making it permanent so the amount of water in the river continues to decrease.
Currently, the lower-basin states are nearing an agreement to conserve 3 million acre-feet over the next three years, The Washington Post reported. That’s half of Reclamation’s minimum required savings of 2 million acre-feet annually, though. Massive amounts of federal money are available for conservation projects, Gimbel said. Programs are already in place to pay farmers and others to use less water and they’ve seen mixed results.She praised lower-basin states for coming together but noted that the water saved by the prospective deal wouldn’t be enough.
Gage Zobell, a water law expert and partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney, said the proposal is effectively a low-ball offer. The lower-basin states appear hopeful that officials at Reclamation might be willing to meet them halfway, he said.
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