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Between the double-decade Millennium Drought and century-old deals overdrafting Colorado River water, the west’s water reserves are drawing dangerously low....
Despite a historical drought in California, Coastal Commissioners prevented a desalination plant from moving forward, defying the governor and regional...
Rejecting objections by environmental and farming industry groups, a federal judge green-lighted a revised, government-endorsed plan to manage water projects...