'Nothing has changed with today's news,' says GreatBasinWater's KyleRoerink1, 'except for the fact that the Colorado River system keeps crashing.'
Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico to draw less from the Colorado River, upon which 40 million people in seven states and Mexico rely. Arizona will face the biggest cut—592,000 acre-feet, or about one-fifth of the state's annual allocation, while an 8% reduction in Nevada isin a state that recycles most of its indoor-use water and does not use its full allotment. Mexico's allotment
"Instead of singing 'Kumbaya,' it appears they're sharpening their knives," Kyle Roerink, executive director of the Great Basin Water Network,In a separate statement, Roerink alleged that"certain Upper Basin interests are holding the Bureau of Reclamation hostage at this point. They have called the Bureau's bluff time and again. Nothing has changed with today's news—except for the fact that the Colorado River system keeps crashing.
"Today's Colorado River projections are undoubtedly a dire warning for the American West to eliminate rampant corporate water abuse before it's too late," Starbuck added. An oasis in the desert that surrounds it for much of its course, the river sustained numerous Indigenous peoples both before and after the genocidal colonization of the Southwest, and since the U.S. conquered the region from Mexico it has been a lifeline for American settlers.
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