Senator Mark Kelly is asking the Federal Bureau of Reclamation to quickly distribute $250 million earmarked to help conserve and protect water in the Southwest's drought. MORE ⬇️
Lake Mead, along the Colorado River, is still at historic lows. Kelly, a Tucson Democrat, hosted a water roundtable discussion in Tempe Friday. He discussed two recent federal laws that will funnel billions of dollars into solutions. The funding includes $250 million this year to go to conservation efforts. Kelley said the efforts are estimated to save 650,000 acre-feet of water on the Colorado River system, which is enough to fill 10 feet of Lake Mead.
The Bureau of Reclamation’s short-term solutions mostly focus on agricultural land, including changing from flood irrigation to drip systems or agreeing to keep fields fallow. "We have all these needs - all these projects - that we want to get underway," Kelly said."I worked really hard on this - the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Now it’s time to get the money deployed."
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