{"id":710139,"date":"2026-06-17T20:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710139\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:57:34","slug":"utah-other-states-continue-to-fight-over-colorado-river-as-drought-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710139\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah, other states continue to fight over Colorado River as drought spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prolonged drought means the nation\u2019s largest reservoirs are dwindling, and litigation over access to water could lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-credit\">(Nina Riggio | The New York Times) The Upper Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park in Colorado on May 16, 2026. About 40 million people and 5.5 million acres of cropland depend on the Colorado for drinking water and irrigation. <\/p>\n<p>Add as Preferred Source<\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prolonged drought means the nation\u2019s largest reservoirs are dwindling, and litigation over access to water could lie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[263777,3832,15229,192,52181,79,282],"class_list":["post-710139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-capacity","tag-colorado","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-reservoir","tag-science","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}