Mexico deal key to drought-challenged Colorado River

ColrdaoWestern U.S. states face the challenge this week of how to squeeze every useable drop from the overtaxed Colorado River that flows into Mexico as worries about water supply grow in the largely dry region, AP reported.

The U.S. interior secretary five months ago declared that the river — already described as the most plumbed and regulated in the world — would be unable to meet demands of a growing regional population over the next 50 years.

“We’re looking at a very significant chance of declaring a shortage in the Colorado River basin in 2016,” Michael Connor, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, said in an interview.

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