California Lone Holdout Amid Colorado River Cuts Consensus (1)

Six of the seven Colorado River Basin states submitted a consensus proposal to the Bureau of Reclamation for water use cuts from the river late Monday, pitting those states against California, which didn’t sign onto the plan.

California will submit its own plan because the six states’ proposal violates the law, JB Hamby, chairman of the Colorado River Board of California and the state’s Colorado River commissioner, said Tuesday.

The six states that reached a consensus—Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming— are calling for less water to flow downstream from Lake Powell to Nevada, Arizona, and California to ...