Navajo Nation water disputes placed on US Supreme Court Docket
Two water cases involving the Navajo Nation's water right claims have been placed on the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
Category: News: Understanding Water Shortages & Drought Impacts in the West
Nevada commission recommends judicial training in water issues
Water law is complex, involving old laws governing increasingly limited resources. Aware that few judges are trained in this area, a Nevada commission is looking at judicial training, updates to the...
Thanksgiving more expensive this year; rising costs will continue
Thanksgiving dinner will cost 20% more than it did last year. The trend of rising food costs is expected to continue.
Western agencies, providers sign on to Colorado River protections
More than 30 water providers and agencies serving Colorado River compact states have signed and delivered a Memorandum of Understanding to the Bureau of Reclamation. The MOU lists actions that the...
Right now, snowpack -- a critical source of water to the Colorado River -- is looking good with Arizona leading the Basin states in high precipitation. But with La Nina, the outlook for the whole...
In what will be the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, stakeholders in four dams on the Klamath system received federal regulatory approval to decommission the dams. The approval follows...