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Feds will take over if Western states can’t agree on Colorado River plan

Western states are still figuring out how to deal with a shrinking Colorado River. They have just months left to make a plan, or the feds will make one for them.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Glen Canyon Dam, which creates Lake Powell on the Colorado River, near Page, Ariz., on Thursday, July 13, 2023. The seven states of the Colorado River Basin only have months to agree on how the river should be managed in future decades, or the feds will move foward without their input.