{"id":77712,"date":"2026-08-21T14:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/the-us-has-a-plan-to-save-the-colorado-river-experts-say-it-wont-be-enough-to-stop-the-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T14:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:54:53","slug":"the-us-has-a-plan-to-save-the-colorado-river-experts-say-it-wont-be-enough-to-stop-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/the-us-has-a-plan-to-save-the-colorado-river-experts-say-it-wont-be-enough-to-stop-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The US has a plan to save the Colorado River. Experts say it won\u2019t be enough to stop the crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 10-year blueprint mandates water cuts of up to 40% for California, Arizona and Nevada<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s official: after years of tense negotiations and missed deadlines, there is finally a plan to govern the future of the imperiled Colorado River &#8211; or at least the makings of one.<\/p>\n<p>With the previous framework set to expire in October, the US Bureau of Reclamation publicly released its proposal for a new plan on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/21\/colorado-river-water-crisis-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10-year blueprint mandates water cuts of up to 40% for California, Arizona and Nevada It\u2019s official: after years of tense negotiations and missed deadlines, there is finally a plan to govern the future of the imperiled Colorado River &#8211; or at least the makings of one. With the previous framework set to expire in &#8230; <a title=\"The US has a plan to save the Colorado River. Experts say it won\u2019t be enough to stop the crisis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/the-us-has-a-plan-to-save-the-colorado-river-experts-say-it-wont-be-enough-to-stop-the-crisis\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The US has a plan to save the Colorado River. Experts say it won\u2019t be enough to stop the crisis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}