{"id":494,"date":"2019-05-20T06:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/?p=494"},"modified":"2019-09-02T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T19:49:56","slug":"the-drought-contingency-plans-done-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"The Drought Contingency Plan&#8217;s done. Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>In 2019, Arizona was one of seven states involved in addressing the future of the drought-stricken Colorado River basin. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If the negotiations that produced the plan showed anything,&#8221; writes Andrew Nicla of the <em>Arizona Republic<\/em>, &#8220;it&#8217;s that people are willing, eventually, to compromise to help protect the West&#8217;s most precious resource. Now the work begins to address the underlying issues that have led to the falling reservoir levels and the threat of shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Here are a few takeaways about what this plan does and where Arizona goes from here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/arizona-environment\/2019\/05\/20\/drought-contingency-plan-done-now-what\/3477317002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"full story here (opens in a new tab)\">full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Arizona was one of seven states involved in addressing the future of the drought-stricken Colorado River basin. &#8220;If the negotiations that produced the plan showed anything,&#8221; writes Andrew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}