Colorado River

Climate change Colorado River Notebook News and Features

February 20, 2019

Dr. Udall discusses the Colorado River’s hydrology, climate change impacts, shortage risk, and the Drought Contingency Plan Dr. Brad Udall...

THIS JUST IN … Metropolitan Water District begins drawing down stored water in Lake Mead

January 7, 2019

“If there is no Drought Contingency Plan, we don’t want to leave potentially half a million acre-feet or more locked up in Lake Mead if we go into shortage,” says General Manager Jeff Kightlinger At today’s meeting of the Water...

COLORADO RIVER: Metropolitan Committee hears more details on the Drought Contingency Plan

November 14, 2018

Metropolitan Board of Directors expected to vote in December At the October meeting of Metropolitan’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee,...

The Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan agreement and what it means to Metropolitan

October 11, 2018

Metropolitan’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee discusses the drought contingency plan for the Colorado River On Wednesday, the major headline...

NEVADA CURRENT: Pipeline opponents to SNWA: See you in court

Nevada Current

September 18, 2018

by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Less than a week after the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) board voted unanimously to appeal a recent ruling by the state engineer that denied the authority water rights for its groundwater pumping and pipeline...

NASA: Dust on snow controls springtime river rise in West

NASA/JPL

Colorado River Hydrology

January 23, 2018

By Carol Rasmussen, NASA’s Earth Science News Team A new study has found that dust, not spring warmth, controls the...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Environmentalists Fight Giant Water Project for Las Vegas

August 1, 2017

Groundwater pumped through a proposed water pipeline from central Nevada to Las Vegas could have permanent and devastating effects on...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Climate Change Wreaking Havoc on the West’s Key Water Supplies

May 15, 2017

Fears over how climate change will manifest itself in the United States typically center on coastal areas, where predictions of a rising sea prompt predictions about disappearing beaches from Los Angeles to Miami to the Jersey Shore. But two recent...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Tribe fights over water allotment in Arizona

March 30, 2017

A small Indian reservation that’s become a major economic force in the desert south of Phoenix has sued the Central...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Water Board Skewered For Failing to Fix Salton Sea

November 16, 2016

Residents and officials living near California’s Salton Sea skewered the state water board in Sacramento on Tuesday for dragging their...

ANNE CASTLE: Our worn out water security blankets

September 21, 2016

The Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior cautions we can no longer rely on the concept of stationarity, big reservoirs, and the no injury rule to buffer our water supply issues Anne Castle...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Navajo Enforce Their Own Clean Water Act

Colorado River Water quality

July 8, 2015

By Elizabeth Warmerdam, Courthouse News Service The Navajo Nation agreed to bring its wastewater treatment plant in Window Rock, Ariz....

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Salton Sea Wins as Calif. Water Standoff Ends

May 28, 2015

By Rebekah Hearn, Courthouse News Service Imperial County and the Imperial Irrigation District agreed to settle a long-running dispute over...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Greens Fight Feds & Nevada Over Water Pipeline