2023-05-23 21:00:18
The water drought in areas of USA that depend on the water of the Colorado River has become a very serious concern for the authorities. For this reason, through a historic agreement, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico pledged to reduce water consumption and thus save the channel.
The last pact between the seven states was negotiated in six years and the current one took two months, so that in the next three years there will be a definitive saving of 3,700 million cubic meters of water and thus give respite to the most important river in the western zone US.
“There are 40 million people, seven states and 30 tribal nations that depend on the Colorado River Basin for basic services like clean water and electricity. Today’s announcement is a testament to the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to working with states, tribes and communities across the West to find consensus solutions to climate change and sustained drought,” said the Secretary of the Interior. , Deb Haaland, in a statement.
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California, Nevada (west) and Arizona (southwest) promoted the initiative.
Early next month, the Department of the Interior will move forward with the process of new operating guidelines to replace the 2007 guidelines and coordinated operations for the lago Powell and the lago Mead at the end of 2026.
For the US authorities, it will be essential to “develop the efficiency of the system in the long term” and prevent “the reservoirs of the Colorado River System from falling to critically low levels.” Under this consensus proposal, the remaining conservation of the system necessary for sustainable operation will be achieved through uncompensated voluntary reductions by the states of the lower basin.
Lago Powell.
The water levels in the lago Mead, in Nevada, fell during the year 2022 to their lowest level since the Hoover dam was placed. Both bodies of water have drastically receded in the midst of a mega-drought and decades of overexploitation, according to CNN.
Lago Mead.
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