Finding solutions for shortages on Colorado River This post, written by Lynn Lipinski, first appeared in SOURCE Magazine and is...
By Brad Udall, Colorado State University; Douglas Kenney, University of Colorado Boulder, and John Fleck, University of New Mexico As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem: not enough water. On...
A major Southern California water purveyor paved the way for a massive restoration project at the Salton Sea in an...
Petition alleges CEQA violations by Metropolitan Water District From the Imperial Irrigation District: On the same day President Trump signed...
Beset by the impacts of climate change, a drought and increased water demand, the Colorado River Basin was already running near empty before the Trump administration approved a new deal allowing additional extractions from one of its main tributaries. By...
Residents and officials who packed a yacht club on the north shore of the Salton Sea in Southern California on...
From the Metropolitan Water District: With the fate of a long-negotiated deal to protect Colorado River supplies in jeopardy, the...
Dr. Udall discusses the Colorado River’s hydrology, climate change impacts, shortage risk, and the Drought Contingency Plan Dr. Brad Udall serves as senior water and climate research scientist at the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University. He has extensive...
“If there is no Drought Contingency Plan, we don’t want to leave potentially half a million acre-feet or more locked...
Metropolitan Board of Directors expected to vote in December At the October meeting of Metropolitan’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee,...
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...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Less than a week after the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) board voted unanimously to...
By Carol Rasmussen, NASA’s Earth Science News Team A new study has found that dust, not spring warmth, controls the...
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...