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Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation officials testified Wednesday on a plan for several contentious dams.

The Bureau of Reclamation has inked 82 agreements promising to pay Colorado River water users with Inflation Reduction Act funding if they commit to cutting back on their water usage, an Interior Department leader told a crowd of Western farmers and irrigation district employees at the Family Farm Alliance’s annual conference. 

The nonprofit Wood River Land Trust is the recipient of $1.7 million of federal funds that will be used for stream restoration and irrigation improvement to repair 1.3 miles of

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced approximately $51 million in funding for water projects on Tuesday. That includes more than $5 million for projects in New Mexico.“Adequate, resilient and safe water supplies are fundamental to the health, economy and security of every community in our nation,” Secretary Deb Haaland said in a press release. […]

On Sept. 15, 2023, the iconic Colorado 14er formerly known as Mount Evans was renamed to Mount Blue Sky. After many years of discussion and six formal proposal letters, the U.S. Board on Geographic Na

Mount Evans in the United States is a beautiful peak, but it is now called by a different name, that is Mount Blue Sky. Why is the name of the Mount changed? Here's everything to know.

The U.S. Senate debates how to help arid Western states, which also covers a lot of state governments, divide resources for everyone.

Demand for water in growing municipalities is stretching agricultural and tribal communities, while shrinking availability is leading to higher water prices.

Decades of drought in the West has made water quality and quantity a major issue requiring government funding and innovation to fix, members of a U.S. Senate panel said Wednesday. Demand for water in growing municipalities is stretching agricultural and tribal communities, while shrinking availability is leading to higher water prices, witnesses told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s Water and Power Subcommittee.

Decades of drought in the West will require government funding and innovation to fix, members of a Senate panel said Wednesday.