Feds outline 'necessary steps' for Colorado River agreement by 2026 but no recommendation yet

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Feds outline 'necessary steps' for Colorado River agreement by 2026 but no recommendation yet
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Federal water officials have made public what they call “necessary steps” for the seven states and multiple tribes that rely on the Colorado River to meet an August 2026 deadline for deciding how to manage the waterway in the future.

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“They’re not going to take the any of the proposals,” said Sarah Porter, director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University. “The federal government put the components together in a different way ... and modeled them to provide near-maximum flexibility for negotiations to continue.”

The third, dubbed “cooperative conservation,” cited a proposal from advocates aimed at managing and gauging water releases from Lake Powell amid “shared contributions to sustain system integrity." In 2026, legal agreements that apportion the river will expire. That means that amid the effects of climate change and more than 20 years of drought, river stakeholders and the federal government have just months to agree what to do.

“The only path forward is a collaborative, seven-state plan to solve the Colorado River crisis without taking this to court,” he said."Otherwise, we’ll watch the river run dry while we sue each other.”

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