Water shortages in US West likelier than previously thought
Water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead could dip to critically low levels by 2025, jeopardizing the steady flow of Colorado River water that more than 40 million people…
Read More...6 western states blast Utah plan to tap Colorado River water
Six states in the U.S. West that rely on the Colorado River to sustain cities and farms rebuked a plan to build an underground pipeline that would transport billions of…
Read More...Water speculators could face more obstacles based on work by new group
The Colorado Department of Natural Resources announced an 18-member work group to conduct a study of how to strengthen Colorado’s water anti-speculation law. Currently, Colorado water law prohibits speculation by requiring water…
Read More...Report: Great Salt Lake shrinking more than a foot annually
Utah’s Great Salt Lake is shrinking every year, but experts are implementing measures to slow the water loss, a new report said. The Great Salt Lake Advisory Council says the water depth…
Read More...How coronavirus and drought have combined to affect Colorado’s limited water supply
While two of Colorado’s largest water providers noticed big drops in some water use when the pandemic hit, those savings were erased as people watered their parched grass through a…
Read More...Council identifies bold efforts needed to save Great Salt Lake
Bold water conservation strategies and changes in long-standing law and water policies are needed to slow the alarming shrinking of the Great Salt Lake, according to recommendation released Tuesday by…
Read More...‘Driest I’ve seen’: Without summer rains, Arizona cattle ranchers confront tough choices
As the monsoon storms have failed to materialize, much of Arizona has baked in one of the driest summers on record. Cattle ranchers have been forced to adapt. Some are…
Read More...Colorado mulls joining massive water conservation project
A statewide public effort to determine whether Coloradans should engage in perhaps the biggest water conservation program in state history — a Lake Powell drought contingency pool — enters its…
Read More...Drought taking a toll on Colorado agriculture “in all corners of the state”
The hot, dry weather that’s fanning fires on tens of thousands of acres across Colorado is also battering the state’s agriculture industry as it stunts crops, dries up the flow…
Read More...Forest thinning, fire can boost Western watersheds
We know there are ways to actively manage our Western forests to improve water quality, provide for jobs, reduce the cost of firefighting and increase forest resiliency. Now we have…
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