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For the first time ever, the Bureau of Reclamation has declared a water shortage for the lower Colorado River Basin resulting in cutbacks for some users…
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The water levels behind the Colorado River’s biggest dams are fast-approaching or already at record lows. The historic 21-year megadrought that is…
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Increasingly bleak forecasts for the Colorado River have for the first time put into action elements of the 2019 upper basin drought contingency plan. The…
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Byline: Judy Fahys, InsideClimate NewsCharismatic is hardly the best word to describe the humpback chub, a fish with a frowny eel face jammed onto a…
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Use it or lose it. That saying is at the heart of how access to water is managed in the western U.S. Laws that govern water in more arid states, like…
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Daniel RothbergThe Nevada IndependentTwenty-two miles outside of the nearest town (Wells, pop. 1,246), graffiti on a crumbling hotel wall reads: “Home on…
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Bret Jaspers, KJZZ Central Arizona has been booming -- more people, more houses, more need for water. There’s also a long-term drought, and less water to…
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By: Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism & Luke Runyon, KUNCFor five years, Zay Lopez tended vegetables, hayfields and cornfields, chickens, and a small…
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Water agencies throughout the West are changing their operations during the coronavirus outbreak to make sure cities and farms don’t run dry. Their…
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A new federal program hopes to fill in knowledge gaps on how water moves through the headwaters of arguably the West’s most important drinking and…
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A new federal program hopes to fill in knowledge gaps on how water moves through the headwaters of arguably the West’s most important drinking and...
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CIÉNEGA DE SANTA CLARA, MEXICO — Juan Butrón-Méndez navigates a small metal motorboat through a maze of tall reeds here in the Mexican state of Sonora....