Farmers in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico will be able to receive compensation in return for cutting back on their water usage after water conservation programs in the states were extended into next year.
The System Conservation Pilot Program (SCPP) first ran from 2015 to 2018 as a trial aimed at supporting projects that could offer potential solutions, such as voluntary, temporary, and compensated water cuts to address declining water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell due to long-term drought conditions in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
