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Plans to cut imperiled Colorado River water usage emerge
Resume![The Colorado River after it passes through the Glen Canyon Dam. The water will travel through the Grand Canyon and into Lake Mead. (Peter O'Dowd/Here & Now)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_3176-1000x750.jpg)
The Department of the Interior has come up with two ideas that would lead to dramatic cuts on the Colorado River. One would divvy up the cuts evenly among states; the other would follow a legal priority system that would benefit the users with the longest-standing rights to the water. The federal government is trying to protect the country's largest reservoirs from failing after 23 years of drought.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports from Phoenix.
This segment aired on April 12, 2023.