Arizona Daily Star: Colorado River tribes say feds left them out of final shortage talks

Debra Utacia Krol, Arizona Republic
Photo Credit: David Wallace, Arizona Republic

Arizona’s largest and most senior water rights holder says it was left out of final discussions about the federal government’s proposed plan to deal with ongoing water shortages in the Colorado River.

The plan, issued by the Bureau of Reclamation on July 31, outlines several alternative paths to preserving water levels in the Colorado’s two major reservoirs, lakes Mead and Powell, and preventing catastrophic “dead pool” conditions that would halt hydroelectric production or water passage past Glen Canyon and Hoover dams.