Colorado River stakeholders ask Congress for $2 billion in emergency funds to address drought crisis

Colorado River stakeholders ask Congress for $2 billion in emergency funds to address drought crisis

A coalition of organizations, tribes, utilities and governments from across the Colorado River basin is asking the federal government for at least $2 billion to address the near-term impacts of the escalating drought and water supply crisis in the West.  “Water Year 2026 is unfolding as one of the most challenging hydrologic years in more than a century of recordkeeping, with exceptionally low snowpack and river runoff and continued stress on an…