2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (460+ words) A lawsuit won’t refill the Colorado River, but it could keep Nevada from being left high and dry. The Trump administration recently released its plan to deal with the shrinking Colorado River. The two-year plan requires the Lower Basin states,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (514+ words) Following years of back and forth between the seven states that share the Colorado River and the federal government, the Trump administration has settled on a plan for the next two years. The Trump administration has handed down a finalized…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (724+ words) Officials say the move could help Nevada get an early start on its obligation to leave more water in Lake Mead over the next two years, should the Trump administration require that. The Southern Nevada Water Authority has agreed to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1002+ words) Along with a Native American tribe and another state, Nevada is making its case to the Trump administration following details of a possibly unfavorable outcome of interstate negotiations. Nevada’s water managers are pleading their case to the Trump administration before…...

1+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (1269+ words) Nevada’s lead Colorado River negotiator said he’s still going to bat for the state behind the scenes as water managers await a final word from the Trump administration. Nevada’s Colorado River czar offered little concrete insight into the status of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (466+ words) A Friday press release offers some insight but no concrete details about what the next two years will bring as the federal government imposes river sharing guidelines. The federal government will announce what are likely to be the strictest Colorado…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (466+ words) A Friday press release offers some insight but no concrete details about what the next two years will bring as the federal government imposes river sharing guidelines. The federal government will announce what are likely to be the strictest Colorado…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1032+ words) A record-dry winter and extreme heat — as well as decades of overuse, chronic drought and climate change — are threatening to pummel Lake Powell to near historic lows. PAGE, Ariz. — Matt Barrett has seen Lake Powell drop nearly every year since…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (645+ words) A Nevada-led fix for Lake Mead, hiding inside last month’s desalination deal. “We can’t conserve enough to save this system,” Sarah Porter of Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy told the Review-Journal. She is right, and it is…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (897+ words) Questions had swirled about how the program, set up by a state law last year, would be funded after lawmakers did not provide any state dollars. A government program to reduce water stress on Nevada’s most over-pumped regions just got…...