Interior Signs the 2027-2028 Colorado River Guidelines, Cutting Lower Basin Water
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEReclamation's release 'For Release: Aug 21, 2026': 'Secretary Burgum signs 2027-2028 Operating Guidelines and Record of Decision'; the guidelines provide 'reductions in deliveries ... of 1.25 million acre-feet in each year of the next two years', so the period runs through 2028.[1]
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed the Record of Decision and 2027-2028 Operating Guidelines for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, cutting Lower Basin deliveries by 1.25 million acre-feet a year for two years, 50,000 of them Nevada's, as both reservoirs hit record lows.
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