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Southwest states facing tough choices about water as Colorado River diminishes
Seven 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....
Ducey gives tribe $30M for water rights
Arizona 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....
Here is Scottsdale’s plan for the Tier 1 water shortage
The federal government has declared a Tier 1 water shortage of the Colorado River that will affect Arizona and here’s how the ...
Western U.S. grapples with water issues amid driest year in a century
The 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....
'Climate change is fundamentally altering the Colorado River': States, tribes grapple with drought
States 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....