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Approximately 40 million people across the West depend on the Colorado River for water every single day. But the region could soon face drastic measures as the river keeps shrinking.
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Jonathan Vigliotti
Correspondent
Jonathan Vigliotti is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Vigliotti's reporting has taken him to more than three dozen countries and territories across six continents.
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Can the West survive ‘drastic’ Colorado River cuts?

US Plan To Allocate Water From The Colorado River Will Severely Impact California, Arizona, & Nevada - CleanTechnica

Siccità e sprechi prosciugano il Colorado River: il governo Usa prepara tagli idrici drastici

The Trump administration will restrict the diminishing water supply

The Colorado River is running dangerously low. States can’t agree how to share what’s left.

Nearly three-quarters of the water in the Colorado River system is used for irrigation.

Crunch time has come for communities that rely on water from the Colorado River. California, Arizona, and Nevada will be directly…

Desalination. Pipelines. Cloud seeding. Those are just a few ideas for how the Trump administration should save the desiccated…

Concerns over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River…