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Colorado River water users convening amid crisis concerns

Officials from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are focusing on how to use at least 15% less water next year, or have restrictions imposed on them.

(John Locher | AP) A formerly sunken boat stands upright into the air with its stern buried in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on June 22, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. The U.S. Interior Department announced, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River in the first sign of what could lead to federal action to protect the shrinking reservoirs behind them.