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America's largest reservoir Lake Mead rises staggering amount after 'dead pool' status
Lake Mead's water levels are up by 16 feet after it reached "dead pool" status in 2021, hinting at a remarkable recovery and ...
Tribes help boost Lake Mead water supply, hope for lame duck passage of $5B federal water act
The $5 billion Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act would secure water rights for the Navajo Nation, Hopi ...
Upper and lower basin states hit tough impasse at annual Colorado River conference
Western states that rely on the Colorado River are in a heated deadlock over how to manage the troubled river, and are ...
Aspen Journalism19h
Colorado has big dreams to use more water from the Colorado River. But will planned reservoirs ever be built?
Colorado has conditional water rights tied to 2.6 million acre-feet worth of additional reservoir storage on the Western ...
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The Roundup | J-1 worker woes, basin states deadlocked and digging in
Recently at Aspen Journalism, we dig deep into critical water issues on the Western Slope and across the wider Colorado River ...
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Salt in the Colorado River is causing problems. A bill is now heading to Biden’s desk that would send more money to address the challenge.
Since 1974, the Bureau of Reclamation has supported various projects to reduce salt levels in the Colorado River’s upper and ...
Coho salmon numbers smash record for second year in a row in Upper Willamette Basin
The number of coho returning to the Upper Willamette smashed records for the second year in a row, but it wasn't necessarily ...
Las Vegas Sun7d
As clock ticks down on deadline for new Colorado River agreement, Lower Basin states pound the table for conservation
John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, stressed to colleagues during the Colorado River ...
AZ Central7d
Colorado River states fear a long legal battle as talks falter over shortage rules
The three Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada say they’ve cut deeply already and are willing to cut more, but they will need help from the Upper Basin states in especially dry ...