Colorado River coalition urges Congress to approve $2B drought response funding.
A broad coalition of more than 70 water agencies, agricultural groups, conservation organizations and Tribal entities across the Colorado River Basin is calling on Congress to provide at least $2 billion in new federal funding to address worsening drought conditions and infrastructure risks throughout the region.
In a letter sent to leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees, the coalition warned that historically low snowpack, declining reservoir levels and aging infrastructure are placing increasing pressure on the Colorado River system, which supplies water to more than 35 million people across the western U.S.
