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By Kenny Stancil
After the Biden administration on Tuesday released proposals to cut water allotments to the states that depend on the shrinking Colorado River, a progressive advocacy group criticized federal officials for failing to address an underlying cause of the region’s hydrological plight: the overexploitation of water resources by the corporate agriculture and fossil fuel industries.
“Any legitimate plan for the Colorado River must directly confront a key driver of the crisis in the first place: the overuse and abuse of limited water resources by big agribusiness and fossil fuel corporations — the very same industries contributing to climate chaos in the first place,” Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter said in a statement.
The seven Colorado River Basin states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — have missed multiple federal deadlines to finalize an interstate water conservation pact.
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