PHOENIX — Arizona is taking its fight over the future of the Colorado River to court. The Arizona Department of Water Resources announced on Friday that they are joining Nevada’s lawsuit against the Federal Government over the new Colorado River cuts.
The legal action comes after years of failed negotiations among seven Western states over how to divide the Colorado River’s dwindling water supply.
In August, the federal government finalized a new operating plan for the river that requires Arizona, California and Nevada to reduce their water use, while imposing no mandatory reductions on the four Upper Basin states: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico…