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For example, in 2022 Pinal County farmers "will lose two-thirds of their irrigation water from the [[Colorado River]] ... [a]nd within two years, they will be completely cut off from the Colorado River."<ref>https://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2022/03/21/crop-switching-megadrought-guayule-arizona-farmers-water/</ref> | For example, in 2022 Pinal County farmers "will lose two-thirds of their irrigation water from the [[Colorado River]] ... [a]nd within two years, they will be completely cut off from the Colorado River."<ref>https://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2022/03/21/crop-switching-megadrought-guayule-arizona-farmers-water/</ref> | ||
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| + | In August 2022, the federal government announced that water reduction by the states drawing on the Colorado River has not met quotas, and thus: | ||
| + | {{cquote|the Bureau of Reclamation, the federal government's water manager, ordered last month that Arizona and Nevada, as well as Mexico, make drastic cuts in how much water they use: 21% less for Arizona, 8% less for Nevada and 7% less for Mexico.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colorado-river-drought-cuts-key-western-midterm-races/story?id=89848866</ref>}} | ||
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Revision as of 05:18, September 21, 2022
Arizona water is disappearing fast, as the Colorado River dries up amid increasing diversions of water for legal and illegal cannabis cultivation. See cannabis water use.
For example, in 2022 Pinal County farmers "will lose two-thirds of their irrigation water from the Colorado River ... [a]nd within two years, they will be completely cut off from the Colorado River."[1]
In August 2022, the federal government announced that water reduction by the states drawing on the Colorado River has not met quotas, and thus:
| “ | the Bureau of Reclamation, the federal government's water manager, ordered last month that Arizona and Nevada, as well as Mexico, make drastic cuts in how much water they use: 21% less for Arizona, 8% less for Nevada and 7% less for Mexico.[2] | ” |