For Star subscribers: The unprecedented move would create a possible, immediate cutback in water supplies to Arizona, California and Nevada. The goal: to keep Lake Powell from falling so law that Glen Canyon Dam couldn't generate electricity.
Tony Davis In what would be an unprecedented move, the U.S. Interior Department is considering an action that would create a possible, immediate cutback in Colorado River water supplies to Arizona, California and Nevada:
If that happened, it would raise concerns about the dam's ability to deliver water to the Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada, wrote Trujillo, Interior's assistant secretary of water and science. "This reality reinforces the need for the basin states, and all entities in the basin, to prioritize work to further conserve and reduce use of Colorado River water to stabilize the system's reservoirs," she wrote.
"Certainty is really important to water planners, but in an increasingly volatile system that certainty is going to be hard to come by," she said. But as reservoirs keep falling due to drought and climate change, Interior's Bureau of Reclamation was already considering releasing more water from upstream reservoirs in the Upper Basin states of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, to prop up Powell. A plan for such releases is to be finished this spring.
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