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The State Press
Colorado River shortage spurs talks of water conservationTo educate the public on water conservation, ASU recently received a $5 million grant to create visualization tools regarding the issue.
Chamber Business News
New Arizona Chamber Foundation policy brief examines groundwater policyThe Arizona Chamber Foundation today released a new brief in its series of whitepapers on Arizona water policy. What Lies Beneath: An Arizona Groundwater Policy Primer, is aimed at...
Arizona Republic
A $40 million investment from Arizona won't save Lake Mead. But it could still helpOpinion: Lake Mead could be facing a Tier 3 shortage by 2023, slashing our options to conserve. An investment from Arizona could help, even it solves nothing.
60 Minutes
Southwest states facing tough choices about water as Colorado River diminishesSeven states and 30 Native American tribes lying in the Colorado River Basin prepare to make hard choices as water levels plummet due to a 22-year drought.
AZ Big Media
Map breaks down Arizona’s water shortage and infrastructureArizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy at the Morrison Institute is empowering Arizona communities to build a more resilient water future with easy-to-understand,...
Arizona Capitol Times
Ducey gives tribe $30M for water rightsArizona is dropping another $30 million in to buy — or, at least, rent — some water rights to help stave off further drought-related cuts in what the state gets from the Colorado River.
AZ Big Media
Here is Scottsdale’s plan for the Tier 1 water shortageThe federal government has declared a Tier 1 water shortage of the Colorado River that will affect Arizona and here’s how the City of Scottsdale plans to move forward.
Globe and Mail
Western U.S. grapples with water issues amid driest year in a centuryThe pallid bathtub ring that marks land dried by the recession of Lake Mead’s water stands as a stark image of a years-long drought in the western United States.
Arizona Republic
Vice president urges enactment of climate spending on visit to drought-stricken Lake MeadThe white “bathtub ring” the shrinking Colorado River has left behind on the beige rocks behind Hoover Dam shows the growing urgency of acting on climate change and drought, Vice...
Tucson Sentinel
'Climate change is fundamentally altering the Colorado River': States, tribes grapple with droughtStates in the Colorado River Basin are adjusting to the reality that their rights outstrip the available water by nearly one-third, state and tribal leaders told a congressional panel Friday.
