Briefly: Salt in the Colorado River is causing problems. A bill is heading to Biden’s desk that would send more money to address the challenge.

According to the Sky-Hi News, the Colorado River Salinity Control Fix Act seeks to correct a funding imbalance in a 50-year-old program to reduce salinity in the Colorado river basin. River salinity can have impacts on agricultural, municipal and industrial water users, contaminating water for drinking, causing damage to infrastructure and aquatic life, increasing water treatment costs and more.

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