While state and federal officials, farmers and the heads of Native American tribes, work intensely to conserve water from the drying Colorado River one term appears more often than probably any other: ...
Green Mountain Reservoir, one of the biggest reservoirs in Summit County, is low this summer, but it’s not as low as in previous drought years. The reservoir is currently storing about 101,000 ...
State water authorities estimated that 3.8 million acre-feet of water went into depleted underground reservoirs this year after a record winter of rain and snow. That’s about how much water more than ...
The seven Colorado River basin states have a plan to temporarily stabilize Lake Powell. It contains some pain and not a lot of gain. Yet no one balked. And that’s a win. That should signal how dire ...
In the the heart of California's drought-parched Central Valley, fruit and vegetable supplier to the nation, a water district is defying a federal order to give some endangered trout a 3.9 billion ...
He may have dropped the news on April Fools Day, but California Governor Jerry Brown's new water rules are no joke. Issued while standing in the bone dry Sierra Nevada mountains---which are usually ...
For too long, California and other states have viewed stormwater as either a threat or an inconvenience — something to be whisked away from cities and communities as quickly as possible. But as ...