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US cuts water supply for some states, Mexico as drought bites
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17 August 2022
LOS ANGELES, 17 August 2022, (TON): Water supplies to some US states and Mexico will be cut to avoid catastrophic collapse of the Colorado River, Washington officials said Tuesday, as a historic drought bites.
More than two decades of well below average rainfall have left the river the lifeblood of the western United States at critical levels, as human-caused climate change worsens the natural drought cycle.
Despite years of warnings and a deadline imposed by Washington, states that depend on the river have not managed to agree on a plan to cut their usage, and the federal government said it was stepping in.
Tanya Trujillo said “in order to avoid a catastrophic collapse of the Colorado River System and a future of uncertainty and conflict, water use in the Basin must be reduced.”
Arizona’s allocation from the river will fall by 21 percent in 2023, while Nevada will get eight percent less.
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