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Data Dump: Colorado River Consumption Drops

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Jun 25, 2024
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🥵 Aridification Watch 🐫
Source: USBR.

The latest Lower Colorado River Accounting Report is out from the Bureau of Reclamation, and it holds some good news: The biggest guzzlers of the river’s water are using less of it.

Last year, the Lower Basin states of California, Nevada, and Arizona consumed1 5.78 million acre-feet, or nearly 900,000 acre-feet less t…

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