{"id":29584,"date":"2026-01-08T20:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29584"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:27:16","slug":"farmers-face-devastating-water-cuts-as-colorado-river-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/01\/farmers-face-devastating-water-cuts-as-colorado-river-disappears\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers face devastating water cuts as Colorado River disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While drought has completely disappeared from California for the first time in years due to heavy rainfall from atmospheric rivers this fall, it is still very much present in the Colorado River basin. The result is drastically lower Colorado River levels, leading to reductions or even cut-offs in irrigation water in areas that depend on that water source. You can read more about what farmers there are facing and the history of the western water compact and how the water has been divided historically in <em>Farm Press<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/farm-operations\/farmers-face-devastating-water-cuts-as-colorado-river-disappears?utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=103907&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=771d77817b2b4404a97c77afebda74d2&amp;sp_eh=0f578de3184a1efdc22151d6ea9c33f7f1990c917c692dbf7a223482d38ef981\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Hoover-dam-lake-mead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Hoover-dam-lake-mead.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Hoover-dam-lake-mead.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Hoover-dam-lake-mead-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Hoover-dam-lake-mead-219x138.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While drought has completely disappeared from California for the first time in years due to heavy rainfall from atmospheric rivers this fall, it is still very much present in the Colorado River basin. The result is drastically lower Colorado River levels, leading to reductions or even cut-offs in irrigation water in areas that depend on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29585,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29584\/revisions\/29585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}