Senate panel lines up action on water infrastructure bills
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A Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee will focus this week on federal water infrastructure, as it reviews a host of bills addressing the Colorado River Basin and other
waterways. The Subcommittee on Water and Power will meet Wednesday on 16 separate bills and hear testimony from Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton. A half-dozen of
the measures on tap are related to the Colorado River, which supports some 40 million individuals across seven Western states. Advertisement The Biden administration is currently leading
negotiations over a new long-term operating agreement on the river, which has been decimated by more than two decades of drought. GET FULL ACCESS