The seven states that depend on the Colorado River have missed a Jan. 31 federal deadline for reaching a region-wide consensus on how to sharply reduce water use.
In a bid to sway the contentious negotiations, all of the states except California gave the federal government a last-minute proposal outlining possible water cuts to help prevent reservoirs from falling to dangerously low levels.
A large portion of the proposed cuts would involve accounting for evaporation and other water losses in the river's Lower Basin, a change that would translate into large reductions for California, and which the state's water officials have opposed.
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