The documents span the June-to-August window the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation gave states to reach consensus on water cuts for a system that supplies 40 million people annually — or have the federal government force them
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and FELICIA FONSECA
As the deadline approached without meaningful progress, one water manager warned: “We’re all headed to a very dark place.” “We are out of time and out of any cushion to allow for a voluntary plan,” Tom Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, told a Bureau of Reclamation official in a July 18 email.
The states are again trying to reach a grand bargain — with a deadline of Tuesday — so that Reclamation can factor it into a larger plan to modify operations at Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam, behemoth power producers on the Colorado River. Failure to do so would set up the possibility of the federal government imposing cuts — a move that could invite litigation.
But as the weeks passed and proposals were exchanged, the Lower Basin states barely reached half that amount, and the commitment was nowhere near firm, the emails showed. Adding to the difficulty was not knowing what Mexico, which also has a share of the river, might contribute. “Otherwise,” he wrote, “I genuinely believe that we are at an impasse, and we’re all headed to a very dark place.”“It was futile, it wasn’t enough. We did not trust that California was going to come through on their piece of it,” Cooke said in an interview.
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AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talksCompeting priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to reduce water use from the Colorado River, emails show
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