Colorado River States Are Racing to Agree on Cuts Before Inauguration Day

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/climate/colorado-river-negotiations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L00.B_KD.VNXGhWJF8SwB&smid=url-share

California, Arizona and others, fearing a political shake-up of negotiating teams after the November election, are aiming to wrap up work this year.

Colorado River States Are Racing to Agree on Cuts Before Inauguration Day

The key problem they're trying to deal with is that they negotiated who gets how much water back when there was a lot more:

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hotelbravo722

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I mean water amount on the Colorado river is one problem of the Colorado Compact. There is a whole lot of other problems that make the whole compact nonviable in the 21st century that are going to need to be worked out in some sort of Western States congress.