Arizona state Senate and House Republicans met last week with members of the Trump administration to discuss solutions to the water crisis facing the Colorado River.
One concern was about the low levels of water at Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen says one strategy involves paying people to not withdraw water from the river.
A “short-term solution had to deal with incentives for people to not take water off the river so that there’s enough water for everybody, and then long-term solutions consisted of quite a few infrastructure projects," he said.
Petersen said Upper Basin states need to release their water from their reservoirs. He also said he and his colleagues felt encouraged by the meeting.
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