{"id":1023790,"date":"2026-08-25T20:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1023790\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T20:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:20:14","slug":"phoenix-officials-say-federal-governments-colorado-river-plan-is-inequitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1023790\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix officials say federal government\u2019s Colorado River plan is inequitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Phoenix officials are criticizing the federal government\u2019s plan to share a reduced supply of Colorado River water, saying it puts an undue burden on Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Bureau of Reclamation finalized a 10-year framework of how to share water between the seven Colorado River basin states as well as 2027-28 operating guidelines. The current agreement of how to share water on the river expires at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Those guidelines for the next two years states that the three Lower Basin states must reduce their water use by a combined 1.25 million acre-feet of water per year. Arizona will take the brunt of that reduction. The reductions per state will be:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Phoenix officials are criticizing the federal government\u2019s plan to share a reduced supply of Colorado River&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1023791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,249194,1587,147197,5644,111172,49420,49421,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,527],"class_list":["post-1023790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-department-of-water-resources","tag-az","tag-central-arizona-project","tag-colorado-river","tag-kate-gallego","tag-lake-mead","tag-lake-powell","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-water"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117158007948623475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}