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Arizona, California face big cuts in anticipated new Colorado River rules

NPR | By Alex Hager
Published July 27, 2026 at 3:26 PM MDT

The federal government has decided how to divide the Colorado River among the seven states that share it. Climate-driven drought has made an already contentious process even more difficult.

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