Increased snowpack in the Rockies made last year a solid one for Colorado River levels. But scientists predict Lake Mead will go back down.
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If the bill were to become law, Nevada would be the first state to give a water agency the power to cap the amount of water that flows into individual homes.
Two competing proposals to achieve federally mandated cuts to Colorado River water use are on the table, but agreement between states has remained elusive.
The mountains that feed the Colorado River already have seen more snow this winter than they normally would through an entire snow season.
One of the Colorado River’s two major reservoirs is expected to collect better than average runoff this year, thanks to an unusually wet La Niña pattern that dropped a deluge of snow up and down the basin.