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The existing plans and commitments to reduce water use don’t add up to even half of the savings that are needed to keep the river flowing.
Cities have the best chance of reducing water use when people actively participate in water conservation, but even that might not be enough in the future.
A new study reveals how the lake bed’s toxic dust impairs lung development in children living nearby.
The current Colorado River negotiations process includes all five of the most common sources of conflict in any process seeking compromise.
Like living beyond your financial means, using more water than nature can replenish can have catastrophic results.
Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.
Reducing rainfall and droughts are causing problems between the US and Mexico because of a historic agreement to deliver water between them.
Immigration isn’t the only hot-button issue along the US-Mexico border. There’s also a growing water shortage that’s affecting farmers, businesses and cities on both sides.
When the Rio Grande figures in US news reports, it’s usually in relation to stories about immigration, drug trafficking or trade. But the river is also an important water source – and it’s shrinking.
Arizona is considering a multibillion-dollar desalination project to address its urgent water needs. Three water experts call for a go-slow approach and point to Israel as a role model.
By a narrow margin, the Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a case over water rights in the drought-stricken US Southwest.
Southwest states have bought time with an agreement between California, Arizona and Nevada to cut Colorado River water use by about 14%. Now comes the hard part.
Two decades of drought have reduced the river’s flow by one-third compared to historical averages. The Biden administration is considering mandatory cuts to some states’ water allocations.
Reservoirs and streams are in good shape in California and the Great Basin, but groundwater and ecosystems are another story. And then there’s the Colorado River Basin.
Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape.
A climate scientist explains the forces behind the summer’s extreme downpours and dangerous heat waves, and why new locations will be at risk in the coming year.
The world’s great rivers are see-sawing from trickles to floods.
Stemming the water crisis in the western US will require cities and rural areas to work together to make water use on farms – the largest source of demand – more efficient.
The Colorado River provides water and electricity to 40 million people in the western US, but falling water levels threaten both of those resources.
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Utah
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Senior Research Scientist, Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University
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Professor of Environmental Science and Director, Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona
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Archivist, Water Resources Archive, Colorado State University
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Director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy, ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University
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Senior Research Associate and Director, Western Water Policy Program, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Practice in Water Policy and Governance and Director, Water Resources Program, University of New Mexico
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Professor of Law, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University
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Research Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University
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Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau