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AMWUA Blog
Warren Tenney
Executive Director
DCP Is Done and the Snowpack’s Great, but We Continue To Prepare
On March 19th, representatives from the seven states that rely on the Colorado River met to celebrate their collective agreement on the Drought Contingency Plans (DCP). In a letter to Congress, the Colorado River Basin States asked for federal legislation that would direct the Secretary of the Interior to execute DCP as the States have agreed to. With the long process of interstate negotiation settled, DCP is now in the hands of Congress and the President. DCP is the plan to take less... Read More>
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Keeping Current
Where We Stand
Colorado River Structural Imbalance
Levels at Lake Mead are rapidly dropping, in part, because the water stored in this reservoir is over-allocated to the states that share it. This puts the stability of the Colorado River system and reliability of Arizona’s Colorado River supplies at serious risk.
Conservation & Efficiency
Drought & Shortage
