thomas buschatzke
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 25, 2021, 12:58 pm
B. Poole
/Courthouse News
With Arizona farmers expecting to take hit next year on their allocation of Colorado River water, water planners, managers, and researchers statewide are keeping a close eye on models that show the shortage could hit cities and towns in the next few years.... 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»
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 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»
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Posted Jul 17, 2015, 3:16 pm
Abrahm Lustgarten
/ProPublica
Despite decades of accepted science, California and Arizona are still counting and regulate groundwater and surface water as if they were entirely separate. Damage from the West’s increasing reliance on underground supplies is proliferating, with groundwater levels in some places being drawn down so quickly that the earth above them is collapsing.... Read more»