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Feb 022023
USA TodayRead More
'Dead pool' approaches: Western water crisis looms as California complicates critical water deal
A water crisis is looming in the West as seven states struggle to agree on how to divide water from the mighty Colorado River....
Feb 012023
CNNRead More
California floated cutting major Southwest cities off Colorado River water before touching its agriculture supply, sources say
In a closed-door negotiation last week ...
Jan 312023
Cronkite NewsRead More
Arizona, other states propose Colorado River cuts; California pushes back
Federal officials said they will consider a plan by Arizona and five other Colorado River basin states on how to further cut water consumption, even though the biggest user in the basin – California – has not signed off on it....
Jan 292023
Associated PressRead More
Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks
Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government’s retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to drastically reduce water use from the parched ...
Jan 272023
E & E NewsRead More
Could a river finally run through the Glen Canyon Dam?
In the fall of 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower ...