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In a close vote, the Central Arizona Project board declined to renew funding for a program it joined in 2007, as Nevada and California agencies urged it to stay in.
Runoff from the late-October and early-November storms is refilling depleted Southwest reservoirs, yet the drought persists and Arizona's Lower Basin cuts stay in place while the Bureau of Reclamation waits on snowpack.
The Interior secretary says Arizona's junior water rights make a court fight risky; Stanton says the state has to resist cuts beyond the next two years. Federal agencies owe a response by the end of October.
Gov. Katie Hobbs and state water officials moved Friday to intervene in the case, saying the federal plan cuts Arizona 760,000 acre-feet a year while sparing Upper Basin states from mandatory reductions.
