LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Metropolitan Water District General Manager Shivaji Deshmukh issues the following statement regarding the revised Lower Basin proposal for Colorado River operations through 2028, submitted today to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. “Metropolitan has been working for more than a year toward building a consensus among all Colorado River water users for post-2026 operations, to improve both sustainability and certainty on the river. Unfortunately, all seven states have