Alex Hager
Alex Hager graduated from Elon University in North Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He'll join Aspen Public Radio from KDLG in Dillingham, Alaska.
“I am immensely excited to be joining the Aspen Public Radio team. I became a journalist because I love to meet interesting people, discover untold stories and tell them to folks who care. I can’t imagine a better place to do all three. I can’t wait to see what Colorado has in store and learn more about what matters to people in Aspen and beyond,” he said.
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When more than 300 water experts got together for an annual conference last week, they had little to do besides wring their hands, listen for crumbs of news and talk about how they would do things differently if they were on the inside of those negotiations. -
The Colorado River basin has lost huge volumes of groundwater over the past two decades according to a new report from researchers at Arizona State University. -
A group of negotiators – one from each of the seven states including Arizona that use Colorado River water – will not be speaking at a major water law conference in June. -
The mountains that feed the Colorado River with snowmelt are strikingly dry, with many ranges holding less than 50% of their average snow for this time of year. The low totals could spell trouble for the nation’s largest reservoirs, but those dry conditions don’t seem to be ringing alarm bells for Colorado River policymakers. -
The seven states that use the Colorado River are deadlocked about how to share it in the future. The current rules for dividing its shrinking supplies expire in 2026. State leaders are under pressure to propose a new sharing agreement urgently, so they can finish environmental paperwork before that deadline. -
Humans have the technology to literally make snow fall from the clouds. In the drought-stricken Southwest, where the Colorado River needs every drop of water it can get, there are calls to use it more. -
Leaders in California, Arizona and Nevada sent a letter to Doug Burgum, the newly appointed Secretary of the Interior, asking for a fresh review of proposals to manage the shrinking Colorado River. -
An executive order issued in the early days of the Trump administration hit pause on at least $4 billion set aside to protect the flow of the Colorado River. -
When it comes to the Colorado River, a court battle between the states that use its water is sometimes referred to as “the nuclear option.” But now, as those states are locked in disagreement about how to share its water, they are tiptoeing closer toward litigation. -
Payments to help Western states respond to drought are on pause after an order from Trump.
