PRESS RELEASE: IID’s Colorado River Agreement to Raise Lake Mead by 10+ Feet Maven News September 27, 2024 155IID inked a landmark conservation agreement on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to conserve up...
USBR: Fish release tries to tip the scales in favor of endangered species Bureau of Reclamation News Agency News September 13, 2024 248By the Bureau of Reclamation Late this spring, more than 2,400 endangered fish made a 700-mile journey that ended in...
AG ALERT: Imperial Valley goes dry as farmers act to protect river Ag Alert News August 28, 2024 695By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Irrigators cut off water to a huge portion of the Imperial Valley’s half-million acres of...
USBR: Innovative effort to restore native Apache trout gets a boost Bureau of Reclamation News Agency News August 20, 2024 18From the Bureau of Reclamation: On the surface, stocking more of the invasive fish you are trying to remove might...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Springtime rain crucial for getting wintertime snowmelt to the Colorado River, study finds Inside Climate News News August 17, 2024 49Researchers from the University of Washington found that, in the absence of typical spring precipitation, plants along tributaries to the...
UNIV. OF WASHINGTON: Why isn’t Colorado’s snowpack ending up in the Colorado River? New research suggests the problem might be the lack of spring rainfall Press Release/Notice Press Release/Other August 16, 2024 78By Sarah McQuate, UW News The Colorado River and its tributaries provide water for hydropower, irrigation and drinking water in...
VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: San Diego Forgoes More Colorado River Water in New Deal Voice of San Diego News August 16, 2024 154By Mackenzie Elmer, Voice of San Diego This story was first published by Voice of San Diego. Sign up for VOSD’s...
PRESS RELEASE: Imperial Irrigation District acts to protect Colorado River, Salton Sea with new Conservation Agreement Press Release/Notice Press Release/Other August 13, 2024 279The Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors approved a landmark conservation agreement with the federal government to leave up to...
USBR: Advancing Water Management: Installation of eddy covariance stations in the Upper Colorado Basin Maven Agency News July 31, 2024 124From the Bureau of Reclamation: Federal funding for Drought Contingency Plan-related activities in the Upper Colorado Basin is coming to...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Feds contradict scientific research, say the Salton Sea’s exposed lakebed is not a significant source of pollution for disadvantaged communities Inside Climate News News July 27, 2024 1063The government’s draft environmental assessment, released in June, moves a key water agency closer to approval of a plan that...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Hoping to reduce Colorado River dependency, Southern California bets big on wastewater recycling Courthouse News Service News July 6, 2024 1356Southern California has become the cradle of water recycling in the United States, with several flagship projects aiming to become...
EOS: Fixing the Flawed Colorado River Compact American Geophysical Union News June 25, 2024 388The 1922 Colorado River Compact ignored available science and overallocated the river’s water, a decision whose effects reverberate today. Now...
EOS: Potential relief for the Colorado River’s near future American Geophysical Union News June 20, 2024 75A new study reveals that precipitation could boost the iconic river’s flow in the next couple of decades despite the...
NASA satellites find snow didn’t offset Southwest groundwater loss NASA/JPL Science June 18, 2024 81By James R. Riordon, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough...
PRESS RELEASE: Reclamation updates Colorado River consumptive uses and losses data Bureau of Reclamation News Press Release/Other June 8, 2024 174Press release from the Bureau of Reclamation: The Bureau of Reclamation has updated its Colorado River System Consumptive Uses and...