Brandon Loomis
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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Thank you.
The reservoirs have been dropping.
The big reservoirs, the biggest two reservoirs in the country are now something like a quarter full.
And for the last few years, the government has been trying to get the states, the seven states that use the river, to come up with some kind of agreement about how each state would react, how much less water we would use.
And we haven't been able to agree to that.
So this framework seeks to do that from the federal perspective, and it's going to last for 10 years.
With each two years, we take another look and see how we have to adapt to what's coming down the river.
So one detail that we're still waiting for is exactly the details about what the next two years will bring.
Within that framework, basically there's a range of options from bad to worse for the people who are downstream of the reservoirs in Arizona, in California, and in Nevada.
And so we're waiting to hear the details of how bad it's going to be during the first two years.
From everything we're hearing from state sources, it seems that they're probably going to accept a deal that those three states offered, which is to reduce our share of the river by about one and a half million acre feet a year.
And to put that in perspective, an acre foot is kind of a wonky term, but it's how they measure water.
It's the volume that would cover an acre to a one foot depth.
And it's about 326,000 gallons, which is enough to support a few households in this region for a year.
But most of the water is applied on farms.
So the one and a half million acre feet is out of a share of supposedly half the river flow was going to be back in the last century.
The half that these three states are entitled to was going to be seven and a half million acre feet.
So that's the supply they've got before in years past before they had to start cutting back already.
And now for the next couple of years, it looks like if they accept that offer, that that's the reduction that these states will face.
But if we have particularly bad winters like this last winter was, you know, the snowpack in the Rockies that feeds this river was the worst on record and the flow was very nearly the worst on record.
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