{"id":3724,"date":"2026-08-03T03:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:57:33","slug":"water-cuts-loom-as-us-unveils-long-awaited-response-to-colorado-river-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=3724","title":{"rendered":"Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado River crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal government plan outlines cuts of roughly 40% to California, Arizona and Nevada but fix is likely to be only temporary<\/p>\n<p>The US government released its anxiously awaited plan for how to manage the Colorado River crisis on Friday, which includes the potential for harsh cuts in water supplied to California, Arizona and Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposal, the so-called lower basin states stand to lose up to 3m acre-feet (3.7bn kiloliters) a year \u2013 enough water annually to serve more than 25 million people and roughly 40% of their collective total. The so-called upper basin states \u2013 Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming \u2013 were spared from mandates restricting their supply.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/31\/colorado-river-water-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/31\/colorado-river-water-cuts' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal government plan outlines cuts of roughly 40% to California, Arizona and Nevada but fix is likely to be only temporary The US government released its anxiously awaited plan for how to manage the Colorado River crisis on Friday, which includes the potential for harsh cuts in water supplied to California, Arizona and Nevada. Under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}