Opinion: Good deal for the state on Colorado River
OK, the massive amounts of rain and snow the Western United States, and particularly California, received this past winter and spring isn’t perhaps a true miracle of biblical proportions.
But when it comes to helping get a small way to solving that seemingly intractable problem of the Western states divvying up the crucial water we all get from the Colorado River, the miracle was essential. Along with all the downpours, the agreement is made possible by the federal government paying some $1.2 billion to irrigation districts, cities and Native American tribes in the three states when they use less water over the next three years, about 13% less.
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