In Photos: Pressures on the Colorado River

FILE - Water flows along the All-American Canal, Aug. 13, 2022, near Winterhaven, Calif.

FILE - Delanna Mart stands on a dock at a lake on Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, July 25, 2022, in Fort Duchesne, Utah.

Joe Bernal works on his family's farm, Sept. 1, 2022, in Fruita, Colo. In November 1922, seven land-owning white men brokered a deal to allocate water from the Colorado River, which winds through the West and ends in Mexico.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover presides over the signing of the Colorado River Compact in Santa Fe, N.M., on Nov. 24, 1922.  

FILE - A worker diverts water as a sprinkler system is installed for alfalfa at the Cox family farm, Aug. 15, 2022, near Brawley, Calif.

FILE - A truck tire once in the water as part of a marina sits on dry ground as water levels have dropped near the Callville Bay Resort & Marina in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Aug. 30, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev.

Garnett Querta carries a hose as he fills his water truck on the Hualapai reservation, Aug. 15, 2022, near Peach Springs, Ariz.  

FILE - A man walks between a canal carrying water from the Colorado River and a border wall separating San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico with San Luis, Ariz., on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico.

FILE - The Colorado River passes through Grand Junction, Aug. 24, 2022, in Mesa County, Colo. In November 1922, seven land-owning white men brokered a deal to allocate water from the Colorado River, which winds through the West and ends in Mexico.

FILE - Fisherman on a boat float on the Colorado River, June 27, 2021, near Burns, Colo.

FILE - A formerly sunken boat sits upright into the air with its stern stuck in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, June 10, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev.

FILE - Floating boat docks sit on dry ground as water levels have dropped near the Callville Bay Resort & Marina in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Aug. 30, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev.

FILE - Alyssa Chubbuck, left, and Dan Bennett embrace while watching the sunset at Guano Point overlooking the Colorado River on the Hualapai reservation, Aug. 15, 2022.