The Colorado River Basin crisis remains so severe that scientists are skeptical depleted reservoirs will fully refill, despite storms and strong snowpack.
On Monday, Colorado and five other Colorado River compact states reached a plan (which they called "an alternative framework") to cut usage of the river,
Months of bitter negotiations between seven states that rely on the Colorado River s vanishing water have collapsed along a clear fault line over the past week: California versus everyone else.
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