Click the link to read the article on the Colorado Politics website (Marianne Goodland). Here’s an excerpt:

June 7, 2024

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton touted the accomplishments of the Biden-Harris administration over the past three years, noting efforts that have poured billions of dollars into shoring up the Colorado River basin. Those efforts mean the near-term threat to the river basin has been fended off, and the system has been stabilized to protect water deliveries, the ecosystem, and power production, Touton told the audience at the 2024 Conference on the Colorado River at the University of Colorado Boulder law school. One of those accomplishments will mean an extra five feet of water elevation at Lake Mead. That resulted from a new agreement with Mexico, called Minute 330, which went into effect in April. Touton said the new deal under the 1944 treaty with Mexico will conserve 400,000 acre-feet over 30 months through the end of 2026…

Touton also listed the various water projects headed to the Colorado River basin and funded by the Biden-Harris administration through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. This includes $4.1 billion for 537 projects in all the states where the bureau operates west of the Missouri River. Among her favorite projects, not necessarily all applying to the Colorado River, Touton noted the Arkansas Valley River Conduit, a President John Kennedy administration-initiated project that finally broke ground two years ago. That project will bring clean drinking water from Pueblo Reservoir through a pipeline to Lamar.

Here’s the link to the Tweets using the conference hash tag.