Colorado River Archives ~ Page 20 of 21 ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

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...

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

Colorado River Notebook News and Features

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

Maven

Colorado River Notebook News and Features

October 11, 2018

Metropolitan’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee discusses the drought contingency plan for the Colorado River On Wednesday, the major headline in California water news was the impending agreement on a drought contingency plan for the Colorado River. The details of...

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

Nevada Current

Colorado River

September 18, 2018

by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Less than a week after the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) board voted unanimously to...

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

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

August 1, 2017

Groundwater pumped through a proposed water pipeline from central Nevada to Las Vegas could have permanent and devastating effects on water resources, opponents told a federal judge Monday. By Mike Heuer, Courthouse News Service Groundwater pumped through a proposed water...

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

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

May 15, 2017

Fears over how climate change will manifest itself in the United States typically center on coastal areas, where predictions of...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Tribe fights over water allotment in Arizona

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

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

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

November 16, 2016

Residents and officials living near California’s Salton Sea skewered the state water board in Sacramento on Tuesday for dragging their feet to solve the lake’s steady shrinking. By Matthew Renda, Courthouse News Service Residents and officials living near California’s Salton...

ANNE CASTLE: Our worn out water security blankets

Maven

Colorado River Notebook News and Features

September 21, 2016

The Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior cautions we can no longer rely...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Navajo Enforce Their Own Clean Water Act

Courthouse News Service

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

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

May 28, 2015

By Rebekah Hearn, Courthouse News Service Imperial County and the Imperial Irrigation District agreed to settle a long-running dispute over a water transfer deal and its impacts on California’s vanishing Salton Sea. A three-judge panel with the Third Appellate District...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Greens Fight Feds & Nevada Over Water Pipeline

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

February 12, 2015

By Mike Heuer, Courthouse News Service The Bureau of Land Management struck out in its bid to dismiss a federal...

NASA/JPL: Parched west is using up underground water: NASA/UCI

NASA/JPL

Colorado River Groundwater News

July 24, 2014

A new study finds more than 75 percent of recent water loss from the Colorado River Basin came from underground...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Blow to Imperial County Over Water Transfer

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

May 19, 2014

By Tim Hull, Courthouse News Service No violation of clean-air laws occurred in approving the transfer of Colorado River water from California’s inland counties to coastal cities, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday. Imperial County and the Imperial County Air Pollution...