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KUNC
Climate change likely to keep hammering Colorado River’s biggest reservoirsThe Colorado River’s largest reservoirs are expected to keep struggling over the next five years due to climate change, according to the federal agency that oversees them.
Arizona Capitol Times
Lawmaker to push bill banning sale of Colorado River rightsAs far as Rep. Regina Cobb, R-Kingman, is concerned, she has just begun to fight. Cobb remains steadfast against a deal that allows a farm along the Colorado River to sell millions of gallons of...
Arizona Capitol Times
Environmentalists seek protections for dry riverbedsThe future is murky for many Arizona rivers and streams now that changes to the Clean Water Act have narrowed federal oversight. Yet with no map or list delineating where state control begins, the...
AZ Central
As climate change fuels heat, fires, drought, Republic panel examines threats, solutionsAs wildfires rage in the West, water supplies decline across the region, extreme temperatures bake Arizona and heat-related deaths rise in Phoenix, experts brought together by The Arizona Republic...
Herald Review
Az Audubon offered in-depth look at state underground water issuesLast week, the Arizona Audubon Society offered an in depth overview of the state of groundwater in Arizona and the possible legal measures which could be enacted to ensure a continued supply into...
ADWR
The Scoops On Water Keep On ComingPanelists participating in Tuesday’s Morning Scoop Tom Buschatzke, Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources; Ted Cooke, general manager of the Central Arizona Project;...
AZ Central
Risk of Colorado River shortage is on the rise, could hit within 5 years, officials sayThe risks of water shortages continue to grow along the Colorado River, which supplies about 40 million people from Wyoming to Arizona.
Tucson.com
Lakes Mead, Powell at risk again from drought despite major conservation effortsFor the second time in two years, federal officials are warning that Lake Mead could drop in five to six years to levels low enough to possibly warrant major Central Arizona Project water cutbacks...
AZ Central
Efforts to sustain Verde River get a boost with $1.2 million grantWhen two conservation groups prepared a “report card” assessing the health of the Verde River watershed, they gave it a C-plus.
AZ Central
Utah's proposal to build Colorado River pipeline gets pushback from 6 statesSix states that depend on the Colorado River have banded together to push back against Utah’s proposal to build a 140-mile pipeline that would move water from Lake Powell, a key storage...
