Featured Article: Drought in the Colorado River Basin (March 20th, 2024)
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Today’s featured CRS article, “Responding to Drought in the Colorado River Basin,” discusses efforts to mitigate the drought in the Colorado River Basin. Contextual information about the drought is provided, before the report goes further into explaining what efforts are being made, and will be made in the near future. This article falls under the issue area of Water Resources Development. From the CRS:
The Colorado River Basin […] covers more than 246,000 square miles in seven U.S. states and Mexico. Basin waters are governed by multiple documents, known collectively as the Law of the River. The Colorado River Compact of 1922 established the framework to apportion water supplies between the river’s Upper and Lower Basins, with each basin allocated 7.5 million acre-feet (MAF) annually. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) plays a prominent role in basin water management due to the many federally authorized projects in the basin.
Interested readers can find the full article here.
