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In dry New Mexico, the traditional shared water system known as acequias are central to the struggle over the future of the commons.

The bureaus Upper Snake Field Office notified the state the releases would be cut for six to eight weeks starting May 10 to prevent water from topping Milner Dam.

In a year of surplus revenues, we might expect dams to get more money.

The Cache County Council voiced their concern over a proposed policy from the Utah Division of Water Rights to severely limit growth in the county, though it appears it was all a misunderstanding.

Water managers got some good news, for a change, as hydrologists for the National Weather Service announced a record snowpack that will deliver more water to the Rio Grande and

As Utah tries to help the Great Salt Lake, Utah leaders met with Israeli government officials, tech startups, agriculture producers and research institutions.

Israel’s innovations in water-conserving technologies and water augmentation have intrigued Joel Ferry, who led a delegation from Utah to the desert nation 7,000 miles away in March.

Utah Department of Natural Resources Executive Director Joel Ferry reads an Israeli nursery rhyme to the men and women who oversee Utahs water systems as they ride in a van headed to government offices in Jerusalem.

Founded in 1948 as a Jewish state, Israel had to find its own water. The country treats water as public property controlled by the state — there are no private water rights.

Rio Grande water managers and stakeholders worry as they plan for the next five decades of water use in New Mexico — a period that will witness tough choices as a dire and historic drought continues and the river is unable to give everyone what they want or need.