Alex Hager
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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.
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The Colorado River is in trouble. More than two decades of megadrought fueled by climate change have sapped its supplies, and those who use the river's water are struggling to rein in demand. Now, with current rules for river sharing set to expire in 2026, policymakers have a rare opportunity to rework how Western water is managed.
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Good news on the Colorado River is rare. Its reservoirs, the two largest in the country, have shrunk to record lows. The policymakers who will decide its future are stuck at an impasse. Climate change has driven more than two decades of megadrought and strained the water supply for 40 million people across the Southwest.
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Forecasters are optimistic after a relatively strong snow season, but say a variety of weather factors could limit the amount of water that will run off into rivers and reservoirs this spring.
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Conservation groups are calling for changes to the management of Lake Powell, the nation’s second largest reservoir, after the discovery of damaged plumbing within the dam that holds it back.
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The seven states that use water from the Colorado River have proposed competing plans for how the river should be managed in the future.
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Researchers found that human-fueled climate change is driving temperatures higher, which makes soil drier and droughts more frequent, intense and widespread.
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The purchase represents the culmination of a decades-long effort to keep Shoshone’s water on the west side of Colorado’s mountains, settling the region’s long-held anxieties over competition with the water needs of the Front Range, where fast-growing cities and suburbs around Denver need more water to keep pace with development.