Alex Hager
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The seven states can’t agree on who should feel the pain of water cutbacks during dry times. The river is getting smaller due to climate change, and states need to come up with new rules to share its water.
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Federal water officials released a set of possible plans for managing the shrinking Colorado River in the future.
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The seven states that rely on the Colorado River are deeply divided over how to manage the shrinking water supply in the future.
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The people who will determine the future of the Colorado River said they do not anticipate major changes to their negotiation process as a result of Trump’s return to the White House.
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Climate change and steady demand have brought Lake Powell water levels to record lows, putting once-submerged reaches of the canyon above water for the first time in decades.
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State and federal leaders are under pressure to cut back on water demand in the Southwest as climate change shrinks supplies. California’s Imperial Irrigation District, which has a larger allocation of Colorado River water than any other farming district or city between Wyoming and Mexico, has ended up in the crosshairs as a result.
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Water users in Western Colorado are awaiting results of ramped-up testing efforts to control invasive zebra mussels after they were found in the Colorado River and an irrigation canal near Grand Junction.
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Seeing how cities are spending the federal cash reveals a major trend in Arizona’s water management. Cities like Peoria are planning to engineer their way out of the problem.
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The future of the Colorado River is in the hands of seven people. They rarely appear together in public. Last week, they did just that – speaking on stage at a water law conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Leslie Hagenstein explains why she cried after she chose to participate in a program that pays ranchers in the Upper Colorado River basin to leave their water in the river.