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2 Western states, Mexico could see their shares of water from the Colorado River cut in 2020

(John Locher | Associated Press file photo) In this July 28, 2014 file photo, lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. Federal water managers said Wednesday, May 9, 2018, that there is a better-than-even possibility that Mexico and the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada will get less water from Lake Mead, a Colorado River reservoir, in 2020 because of a drought.