California and six other drought-parched states have until Tuesday to hammer out a deal to cut their voracious thirst for Colorado River water by up to 30%. Don’t hold your breath.
A field of spinach is irrigated with Colorado River water in Imperial Valley on Dec. 5, 2022. Photo by Caitlin Ochs, Reuters
California and six other drought-parched states have until Tuesday to hammer out a deal to cut their voracious thirst for, no one is volunteering to make the cuts that the federal government is now demanding, but there’s finger-pointing a-plenty. The Rocky Mountain states of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah blame users down river; Nevada says it’s done enough; and California’s mega user, the Imperial Irrigation District, said the coming water crunch is not its problem.
, the water district in Imperial sucks up more Colorado River water than Nevada and Arizona combined. Even so, growers there say they’re “all squeezed out.” Negotiations among the states haven’t been going well for a while now. Last year, the Biden administration gave the seven states an
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