Early shots fired in legal fight over WOTUS rewrite
Property rights advocates today filed one of the first lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s Clean Water Act rule, arguing that the regulation does not go far enough in limiting the…
Read More...New Mexico senators weigh in on stream access
New Mexico’s two U.S. senators are wading more deeply into a stream access debate that’s been simmering for years. U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall, both Democrats, this week…
Read More...‘Hydrologists should be happy.’ Big Supreme Court ruling bolsters groundwater science
A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling puts groundwater science at the center of decisions about how to regulate water pollution. Today, in a closely watched case with extensive implications, the…
Read More...EPA finalizes Trump administration rollbacks on stream and wetland protections
The Trump administration published a final rule Tuesday rolling back Obama-era environmental protections. The final rule, written by the Engineers Corps and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), redefines the scope of waters…
Read More...Plan calls for diverting, storing water from Gila River
Water from two rivers that span parts of New Mexico and Arizona would be diverted and stored under a project proposed by the New Mexico Central Arizona Project Entity. The…
Read More...First-of-its-kind water conservation project on sold Colorado ranch
The sale of Little Cimarron Valley Ranch in southwest Colorado represents a successful partnership with a number of different stakeholders and the culmination of an innovative water conservation initiative that sets precedent for…
Read More...Las Vegas giving up bid to pump, pipe from rural valleys
Las Vegas water officials said Friday they’re giving up a decades-long plan to pump and pipe groundwater from rural northeast Nevada to suburbs and tourist resorts in the state’s largest…
Read More...Study: Warming makes U.S. West megadrought worst in modern age
A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest megadroughts in the region in more than 1,200 years, a…
Read More...Largest US dam removal stirs debate over coveted West water
The second-largest river in California has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees…
Read More...Federal court rejects California water ‘takings’ case
A federal court yesterday rejected a case from a California city and irrigation districts that claimed the Bureau of Reclamation violated their constitutional property rights when it did not deliver…
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