(Undated) — The future of Utah Water has been submitted to the Bureau of Reclamation. While the seven states that use the water initially wanted to create a unified plan for after 2026, that ultimately failed and the groups split into their predetermined upper and lower basin groups. Utah is […]
(St. George, UT) — A new study places Lake Mead as the deadliest National Park in the U.S. over the past ten years. The study was done by personal injury company Connecticut Trial Firm and took data information from the Public Risk Management Program. A spokesperson for the park told […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A state judge has again rejected a decades-long bid to tap groundwater beneath vast rangelands in northeast Nevada and pipe it to fast-growing suburbs and glittering gambling resorts in and around Las Vegas. In a strongly worded statement, Judge Robert Estes said he saw no reason […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Arizona and Nevada are faced with the first-ever cuts to their Colorado River water supply in 2020. But the cuts aren’t expected to be overly burdensome for either state because they’ve been conserving and storing water for years. The water is delivered through Lake Mead, one […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Snow swamped mountains across the U.S. West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and largely making wildfire restrictions unnecessary. But the wet weather can be misleading. Climate change means the region is still getting drier […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Reservoirs around the Colorado River basin are in good shape after an exceptionally wet winter. The largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are expected to be more than half full this year. They haven’t been near capacity since 1999 when drought took hold of the […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Two members of Arizona’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Tuesday on a plan to address a shrinking supply of water from a river that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West. Republican Sen. Martha McSally and Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva vowed to move identical bills quickly […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on a drought plan for the Colorado River (all times local): 1:25 p.m. A major Southern California water agency has agreed to store extra water in a key reservoir in an effort to preserve a multistate drought plan for the Colorado River. The board of […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — All seven Western states that rely on Colorado River water now have agreed to a plan to keep key reservoirs from plummeting. Arizona lawmakers approved the plan late Thursday, becoming the last state to meet a deadline set by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The bureau’s […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona lawmakers voted Thursday to let the state join a drought plan for the Colorado River, narrowly meeting a federal deadline that threatened to blow up a compromise years in the making for the seven states that draw water from the constrained river. Arizona is the only […]
