Hamby, the chair of the Colorado River Board of California.Ĭalifornia is relying on its legal status as the senior-most user in the river's lower basin and rebuffing arguments that keeping more water for its farmers will force cities in Arizona and Nevada, other lower-basin states, to run dry. “We didn’t just learn last year that water evaporates,” said J.B. Six of them ganged up on California last week, arguing that it should bear the brunt of supply cuts because a greater share of the water evaporates before it gets that far downriver.Ĭalifornia is bristling at the proposal. The seven states that share water from the Colorado River are as close to open conflict over dwindling supplies as they've ever been. MUTINY ON THE COLORADO - Push is coming to shove on the West's most important river. Colorado River dependents are between a rock and a dry place - but it can still get drier.
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