The Department of Water Resources (DWR) released a report today analyzing how various strategies, including the Delta Conveyance Project, could support the State Water Project (SWP) in sustaining consistent water deliveries to 27 million Californians amid challenges such as rising...
This is the second installment of Mongabay’s coverage of active management tools for forest fires. Read Part 1. Photographs of forests in the western U.S. from the mid-1800s show a starkly different reality compared to what we see today, says...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Federal officials announced Friday they would continue water allocation cuts on the Colorado River for the fifth consecutive year following a persistent drought that’s shrunken the river’s largest reservoir. The Bureau of Reclamation announced that...
By Tim Carmichael, President of California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance and Joe Cruz, Executive Director, California State Council...
Press release from Ocean Well and Las Virgenes Municipal Water District OceanWell, a water technology company, announced plans to advance Water Farm 1 (WF1)– the first subsea reverse osmosis desalination project in the U.S. — in partnership with Las Virgenes...
Latest projections stress the need for robust operational agreements for the Colorado River after 2026 The Bureau of Reclamation released the August...
By Faith Kearns, Arizona State University As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim in July 2025, the air turned toxic. A chlorine gas leak had erupted from the park’s water treatment facility as...
