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Deadline approaches for Colorado River negotiations
The U.S. government may impose water-use terms on seven western states after two and a half years of talks fail to meet the Feb. 14 deadline, affecting 40 million people.
- On Feb. 14, officials negotiating to protect and redefine Colorado River use face a major deadline after late-January talks in Washington, D.C., produced no agreement.
- Historic allocations rooted in the 1922 Colorado River Compact, which allocated 11 million acre-feet despite lower flows, and the expiring 2007 agreement, drive the impasse after two-and-a-half years of negotiations.
- Las Vegas exemplifies conservation gains, reducing per-capita water use by 55% despite adding roughly 829,000 residents.
- Because it's an interstate compact, unresolved disputes could end up before the Supreme Court of the United States, a path governors say they'd prefer to avoid, and the U.S. government has retained the right to impose a contract if talks fail.
- Tribal inclusion has slightly increased, and experts urge basin-wide conservation as 2027 restrictions will ban irrigation for unused medians and roundabouts.
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