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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, March 07, 2025
The Interior Department will consider five options as it works to develop a new framework to govern Colorado River water cuts after current guidelines expire in 2026, according to a new report released by the agency.
The Bureau of Reclamation on Thursday announced that it will provide another $700 million for water conservation projects in Arizona, Nevada and California.
There are a lot of new details now about the farm bill that Republicans plan to push through the House Agriculture Committee next week. Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., on Friday afternoon released a 38-page section-by-section summary on his draft and is expected to release more detail later this week.
When it comes to water issues in the western U.S.—specifically the seven states dependent on the Colorado River system for their lives and livelihoods—John Boelts thinks farmers are giving up more than their share.
States in the upper and lower halves of the Colorado River basin have unveiled conflicting visions on what path the Bureau of Reclamation should follow when crafting a new framework governing water cuts after current guidelines’ 2026 expiration.
The Bureau of Reclamation is throwing its weight behind a plan by Arizona, Nevada and California to preserve at least 3 million acre-feet of Colorado River water through 2026.
The Bureau of Reclamation has inked 82 agreements promising to pay Colorado River water users with Inflation Reduction Act funding if they commit to cutting back on their water usage, an Interior Department leader told a crowd of Western farmers and irrigation district employees at the Family Farm Alliance’s annual conference.
Arizona, California and Nevada's plan for conserving at least 3 million acre feet of water will be more effective at staving off the threat of two primary Colorado River reservoirs falling to "critical elevations" over the next three years than current guidelines, the Bureau of Reclamation said Wednesday.
Colorado River water users are divided over how to reduce water consumption following the expiration of current guidelines in 2026, with some calling for declines to be distributed evenly across all users and others seeking decreases based on water rights seniority.
