Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline all combined to thwart a voluntary deal last summer on how to drastically cut water use from the parched Colorado River.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal in the summer of 2022 on how tofrom the parched Colorado River, emails obtained by the Associated Press show.
"The challenges we had this summer were significant challenges, they truly were," Chris Harris, executive director of the Colorado River Board of California, said in an interview about the early negotiations. "I don't know that anybody was to blame, I genuinely don't. There were an awful lot of different interpretations of what was being asked and what we were trying to do.
Reclamation also has agreed to spend $250 million mitigating hazards at a drying California lake bed, a condition of the state's water users agreeing to cut their use by 400,000 acre feet in a proposal released in October. Figuring out who absorbs additional water cuts has been contentious, with allegations of drought profiteering, reneging on commitments, too many negotiators in the room and an unsteady hand from the federal government, the emails and follow-up interviews showed.
In a series of exchanges through July, Arizona and California each proposed multiple ways to achieve cuts, building on existing agreements tied to the levels of Lake Mead, factoring in the water lost to evaporation or inefficient infrastructure, and fiercely protecting a priority system, though it was clear negotiators were becoming weary.
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AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talksCompeting priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline all combined to thwart a voluntary deal last summer on how to drastically cut water use from the parched Colorado River
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AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talksCompeting priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline all combined to thwart a voluntary deal last summer on how to drastically cut water use from the parched Colorado River
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Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talksCompeting priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to drastically reduce water use from the Colorado River.
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AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talksCompeting priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to reduce water use from the Colorado River, emails show
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AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talksSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to drastically reduce water use from the parched Colorado River , emails obtained by The Associated Press show.
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AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talksThe documents span the June-to-August window the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation gave states to reach consensus on water cuts for a system that supplies 40 million people annually — or have the federal government force them
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