Arizona, California push analysis of forced cuts on Colorado River
Arizona and California officials are turning to the threat of a “compact call” in the Colorado River Basin to ratchet up the pressure on four Upper Basin states, including Colorado, in stalled negotiations over how the river will be managed in the future. The century-old legal concept raises the prospect of forced water cuts in the Upper Basin states if inter-basin water sharing obligations aren’t met. The details of how a compact call would work are not entirely clear — it has never been enforced since it was first introduced in the 1922 Colorado River Compact.
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