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Arizona Takes Biggest Water Cut | Tucson News
The Colorado River is in crisis as federal officials unveil a two-year plan slashing water allocations—especially hard on Arizona, which must cut 760,000 acre-feet annually. While avoiding the worst cuts to Arizona’s Central Arizona Project, the deal still demands major sacrifices from the Lower Basin states. Now, those states are demanding the Upper Basin—Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—to shoulder their own mandatory cuts, arguing no one state group should bear the brunt of this megadrought. With Lake Powell and Mead at historic lows and 40 million people depending on the river…
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