Denver (KDVR) – The Law on the System of the Conservation of the Conservation of the Colorado River River in the Senate in the Senate, with the aim of expanding the scope of the experimental program to preserve the system that allows water conservation projects to oversee drought conditions on the Colorado River.
The bill was initially approved in the Senate in 2024, but it was late in the House of Representatives, which led to Re -submitting the bill in 2025Because it needs to pass the house before signing it in the law.
“We do not need to sit waiting for a silver bullet while the Colorado River dries,” Hikinlobol said. “It will take every tool at our disposal to keep the water flow to all cases of the seven basin. Voluntary conservation is a large part of it. We are committed to obtaining this law via the finish line.”
This legislation extends from SCPP to 2026, allowing the Kolurado River: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, with funding for water conservation efforts in severe and extended dehydration.
In the press statement, Hickeenloper said, the validity of the ScPP boxes ended in December 2024, and in order to continue, they must be renewed in 2025.
CosPonsors of the draft law are the American Senator John Pararasu, Michael Bennett, Cenatia Lomis, and John Cortis. Meanwhile, Representative Harright Hagman is leading the home version of the law to extend the Kolurado River system.