Given the decrease in the flow registered in the Colorado River, the federal government is considering drastically cutting access to water from this tributary to the states of California, Arizona and Nevada.

Including drinking water and water for agricultural, industrial and municipal uses, the river that meanders and divides the border between the United States and Mexico nourishes seven states.

However, each year its flow has been reduced by what are scientifically the effects of climate change, but which the federal government only recognizes as common droughts in the West.

The controversial thing about the issue is that for some states, reducing their water supply would represent enormous social and economic problems.

Through a report recently presented by the federal government, it proposed cutting up to 3 million acre-feet per year of water from California, Arizona and Nevada, known collectively as the states of the Lower Colorado River Basin.

That amount represents about double the 1.6 million acre-feet per year that those states have proposed for the next two years.

The point is that the lack of rainfall, added to the behaviors related to the overexploitation of water, increase the risk that the river will run out of the vital liquid, opening the door to an ecological disaster never seen before, which could be binational, since several communities and cities on the Mexican side are also nourished by the same flow.

In a statement, Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, defined the new 10-year framework related to the river as flexible to take into account the specific water conditions of the coming years.

“This framework provides the flexibility necessary to respond to changing hydrological conditions, while preserving the opportunity for Basin States to continue working towards lasting solutions based on consensus,” part of the text indicates.

It should be noted that the federal government has not yet published the specific plans for the management of the Rio Grande during the next two years, although it has already threatened to implement the drastic cut mentioned.

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