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Posted Feb 16, 2022, 6:36 am
Alexia Stanbridge
/Cronkite News
The megadrought that’s gripped Arizona and the Southwest since 2000 is the driest in more than 1,200 years, and it is likely to continue for the near future, and historic low water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell have triggered the state’s drought contingency plan.... Read more»
Posted Oct 7, 2021, 8:07 am
Ariana Figueroa
/Arizona Mirror
Experts in government, agriculture, water management and the environment stressed during a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday the danger that droughts fueled by climate change pose in the West, including the Colorado River Basin. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 24, 2021, 9:51 am
Ulysse Bex & Emma VandenEinde/Cronkite News
New projections from a Bureau of Reclamation report released Thursday show that Lake Mead and Lake Powell could reach “critically low reservoir elevations” sooner than expected, spurring experts to say that “bold actions” will be needed to change course. ... Read more»
Posted Jul 16, 2021, 2:31 pm
Sarah Tory
/High Country News
Hundreds of thousands of people have moved to the Phoenix area in recent years looking for affordable homes and sunshine, and home sales have increased by nearly 12 percent in 2020 due to the pandemic, but there's just one problem: The region doesn’t appear to have enough water for all the growth.... Read more»
Posted Apr 30, 2021, 12:02 pm
B. Poole
/TucsonSentinel.com
Leaders from Reclamation, the Arizona Department of Water Resources and the Central Arizona Project, which delivers much of the state’s share of the river to more than half its residents, offered a glimpse Thursday of where Arizona stands with the shortage looming.... Read more»
Posted Jul 1, 2019, 1:13 pm
Miranda Faulkner
/Cronkite News
Tribal leaders urged House lawmakers Wednesday to support a handful of bills that would guarantee water to their tribes in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico and fund the water treatment plants and pipelines to deliver it.... Read more»
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Posted Apr 9, 2019, 10:27 pm
Andrew Howard
/Cronkite News
Two weeks after water officials told Congress there was urgent need to approve the Colorado River drought contingency plan, the House and Senate both passed a plan Monday and sent it to the president’s desk.... Read more»
Posted Mar 28, 2019, 6:42 pm
Andrew Howard
/Cronkite News
The director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources told a U.S. Senate panel Wednesday there is an “urgent need” to authorize a multistate drought contingency plan for the Colorado River basin.... Read more»
Posted Feb 8, 2019, 1:24 pm
Jose Ivan Cazares
/Cronkite News
Arizona lawmakers have agreed to the broad terms of a deal Gov. Doug Ducey helped negotiate but resource managers at California's largest lake remains are demanding $200 million before signing off on the deal... Read more»
Posted Dec 3, 2018, 3:14 pm
Bret Jaspers
/KJZZ
Negotiations on a drought plan for Arizona took a step forward Thursday when the head of the state water department said Gov. Doug Ducey will ask for $30 million in his upcoming budget proposal to help make the Drought Contingency Plan a reality.... Read more»
Posted Dec 12, 2017, 5:05 pm
Isaac Windes
/Cronkite News
States, federal and Mexican officials hailed a binational agreement this fall that they said could lead to a radical shift in how the region prepares for and responds to drought.... Read more»
Posted Aug 4, 2017, 9:09 am
Ben Moffat
/Cronkite News
Arizona’s top water official told a congressional committee that even though the state has done a lot right, years of drought still threaten to push the region into a water emergency in the next few years.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 19, 2017, 9:52 pm
Alexis Kuhbander
/Cronkite News
Arizona risks losing water rights because of a lingering, nearly two-decade long drought in the Colorado River that could restrict water use ranging from farmers’ crops to how many households receive water, state water experts say.... Read more»
Posted Mar 7, 2017, 2:54 pm
Joseph Guzman
/Cronkite News
There are many factors behind declining Colorado River flows, but climate change plays a larger part than previously thought and the threat will continue to grow if global warming is not addressed, a recent report says.... Read more»
Posted Oct 24, 2016, 12:18 pm
Adam DeRose
/Cronkite News
Parts of Arizona could experience as many as 140 days of temperatures above 100 degrees per year within 20 years, according to a climate change model from the EPA. Despite that, state agencies say they are confident that the state has been careful in its water use, and communities and water utilities have developed responses to changing climates for years.... Read more»
Posted May 17, 2016, 11:28 pm
Emily Zentner
/Cronkite News
Arizona officials said Tuesday it is time to end the “gentleman’s agreement” currently governing states’ use of water from Lake Mead and instead put tougher restrictions into law.... Read more»