Colorado River
More than 10 trillion gallons of water has evaporated from the Colorado River Basin between 2000 to 2021, according to a new study. That’s about the size of Lake Mead in Nevada, which is fed, coincidentally, by the Colorado River System. UCLA researchers are blaming the disappearance on the climate crisis that has been exacerbated…
Supreme Court ruling complicates Navajo Nation’s fight for more water By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — On some parts of the Navajo Nation, where roughly a third of the people lack reliable access to clean water, people have to drive for miles on red dirt roads to lug…
Vegas water agency empowered to limit home water flows in future By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has taken a dramatic, but not immediate, step toward limiting the amount of Colorado River water used in the most populous part of the nation’s most arid state, after lawmakers gave Las Vegas-area water…
The Bureau of Land Management is developing a sustainability project that will focus on ecosystem restoration and the economic viability of communities who reliance on these lands is important to their livelihoods as well as traditions. BLM has selected 21 Restoration Landscapes where they will dedicate $161 million toward the improvements in the health of these…
Nevada fight over leaky irrigation canal and groundwater more complicated than appears on surface By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Water conflicts are nothing new to the arid West, where myriad users long have vied for their share of the precious resource from California’s Central Valley to the Colorado and Missouri rivers.…
Breakthrough proposal would aid drought-stricken Colorado River as 3 Western states offer cuts By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Arizona, Nevada and California said Monday they’re willing to cut back on their use of the dwindling Colorado River in exchange for money from the federal government — and to…
The Department of the Interior announced significant new developments in the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to protect the stability and sustainability of the Colorado River System now and into the future. As part of the Department’s continued efforts to address ongoing severe drought conditions and a changing climate in the Colorado River Basin, representatives from the…
What might cuts to dwindling Colorado River mean for states? By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration floated two ideas this week to reduce water usage from the dwindling Colorado River, which supplies 40 million people. The 1,450-mile (2,334-kilometer) river is a lifeline for seven U.S. states, dozens of Native American…
Feds spend $2.4 million on cloud seeding for Colorado River BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Southern Nevada Water Authority on Thursday voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to fund cloud seeding in other Western states whose rivers feed the parched desert region. The weather modification…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of a region important to the U.S. food supply. That warning…