Utah and 6 other Colorado River Basin states are offering a plan that could reduce river consumption by 3 million acre-feet over the next 3 years.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah and the six other Colorado River Basin states collectively said Monday that they are moving forward with recommending a new "consensus-based system conservation proposal" that Arizona, California and Nevada agreed on, which seeks to conserve at least 3 million-acre-feet of the Colorado River system's water by 2026.
The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation announced a new draft supplemental environmental impact statement for its plans to reduce river consumption last month. It offered three options at the time, including an option to do nothing, an option to reduce releases from the Glen Canyon Dam and give senior water rights holders priority among the Lower Basin states, and an option to reduce water use availability equally among the Lower Basin states.
It's worth noting that the Upper Basin states — Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming — aren't completely sure about the plan. The states wrote Monday that there was "insufficient time" for the Upper Basin states to "thoroughly review" the plan that the Lower Basin states agreed on with the public comment on the federal plan scheduled to wrap up on May 30.
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