WASHINGTON — After months of fruitless negotiations between the states that rely on the shrinking Colorado River, the Biden administration on Tuesday proposed to place apart authorized precedent and save what’s left of the river by evenly slicing water allotments, decreasing the water delivered to California, Arizona and Nevada by as a lot as one-quarter.
The dimensions of these reductions and the prospect of the federal authorities unilaterally imposing them on states have by no means occurred in American…
