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Several of Colorados water experts on Thursday noted that the federal governments plan for tackling dwindling Colorado River reservoirs is "light" on the next steps but that the rivers condition

The mighty Colorado River isn’t so mighty anymore. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Tuesday steps will be taken to protect the increasingly...

The federal government on Tuesday announced a second round of water restrictions to states that depend on the Colorado River Basin. The move comes as the American West faces unprecedented challenges to preserve water that continues to recede rapidly. Jennifer Pitt, Colorado River program director for the National Audubon Society, joins Stephanie Sy to discuss.

More big cuts will be needed to keep supplies from reaching perilously low levels, the Bureau of Reclamation's leader told a Senate committee this week.

For the first time, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is reducing water deliveries to the Colorado River Lower Basin states by nearly a half-million acre-feet.

Another historic first is playing out in the Colorado River Basin as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announces that for the first time, it is changing operations at Lake Powell’s Glen Canyon Dam. The bureau is invoking its authority to change annual operations at Glen Canyon Dam to protect hydropower generation.

Songs for Ukraine fundraiser. Water lawyer Emily Lewis, host of the Ripple Effect podcast. Pollen Path, a pop-up art show in support of a new Indigenous Community Healing Garden in SLC.

Water managers announce new measures to deal with dwindling water supply.

A new proposal in Congress would let Arizona’s Colorado River Indian Tribes lease portions of their federal Colorado River allocations for the first time, a move the tribes said would benefit both the river and tribal economies.

/PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Walton Family Foundation today announced a new two-year grant to support the...