跟进：中央亚利桑那项目申请介入科罗拉多河诉讼：称联邦计划最坏可令其供水归零
美国亚利桑那州，中央亚利桑那项目（Central Arizona Project，CAP）10月27日向内华达州联邦法院提交动议，申请介入内华达州起诉联邦内政部的科罗拉多河水权诉讼。据《亚利桑那共和报》报道，CAP总经理布伦达·伯曼（Brenda Burman）在当天记者会上表示，依赖这条河的各方已别无选择、只能诉诸法院；CAP的目标一直是避免诉讼，但不能以放弃捍卫自身权利为代价。
这宗诉讼由南内华达水务局、内华达州科罗拉多河委员会与内华达州于8月下旬提起，挑战垦务局的河流管理新框架：下盆地的亚利桑那、内华达与加州三州须在两年内合计减少125万英亩-英尺取水。亚利桑那州州长凯蒂·霍布斯与州水资源部已于10月16日申请加入该诉讼（本站已报道）。
CAP经一条336英里长的运河把科罗拉多河水送往凤凰城与图森地区，为50多家市政与工业用户和11个部落供水，服务范围覆盖全州80%的居民与90%的经济活动。伯曼说：「美国政府在其框架文件中给自己留下了这样的能力：把CAP系统和我们所有用水户——50多家市政与工业用户、11个部落——降到零。这对亚利桑那州中部和南部、乃至整个州都是毁灭性的。」她还批评联邦计划未充分评估其造成的经济、社区与运河本身的损害。
CAP的水权优先序位列第四、相对靠后。在最坏情形下，联邦计划可能要求下盆地三州每年合计削减多达300万英亩-英尺，CAP运河可能完全断流。管理CAP的中亚利桑那水利区董事会已在9月全票通过决议，为对联邦政府采取法律行动铺路。
来源：GSM·美国
Follow-Up: Central Arizona Project Moves to Intervene in Colorado River Lawsuit, Warning Federal Plan Could Take Its Water to Zero
The Central Arizona Project (CAP) on October 27 filed a motion in federal court in Nevada to intervene in Nevada's lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior over Colorado River water cuts. CAP General Manager Brenda Burman told a news conference that day that the parties who rely on the river have no choice but to turn to the courts, adding that CAP's goal had been to avoid court, but not at the expense of defending its rights, the Arizona Republic reported.
The lawsuit was filed in late August by the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the Colorado River Commission of Nevada and the state of Nevada, challenging the Bureau of Reclamation's new river management framework, which requires the Lower Basin states of Arizona, Nevada and California to cut a combined 1.25 million acre-feet of withdrawals over two years. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and the state Department of Water Resources moved to join the suit on October 16, as GSM previously reported.
CAP delivers Colorado River water through a 336-mile canal system to the Phoenix and Tucson areas, serving more than 50 municipal and industrial users and 11 tribes, and supplying at least some water to 80 percent of the state's residents and 90 percent of its economy. "The United States has given itself the ability in its framework documents to take the CAP system and all of our water users, over 50 municipal and industrial users, 11 tribes, to zero," Burman said. "That is devastating to central and southern Arizona and the entire state." She said the federal plan "fails to adequately assess the devastation, the economic harm, the harm to everyday communities, the harm to the canal itself."
CAP holds a relatively junior, fourth-priority water right. In the worst case, the federal plan could take up to 3 million acre-feet a year from the Lower Basin states, and CAP officials argue the canal could go completely dry. The board of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District, which operates CAP, voted unanimously in September to authorize legal action against the federal government.
Source: GSM News
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：图：中央亚利桑那项目（CAP）运河航拍（资料图）。图片：美国垦务局，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Aerial view of the Central Arizona Project canal (file photo). Photo: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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