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By Dionne Searcey and Delger Erdenesanaa The New York Times America’s stewardship of one of its most precious resources, groundwater, relies on a patchwork of state and local rules so lax and outdated that in many places, oversight is all but nonexistent, a New York Times analysis has found. The ...
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           Backyard lawns safe, but draft bill proposes prohibition on new ornamental grasses By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Coloradans might have to say goodbye to verdant green medians full of grass if state lawmakers succeed in a plan to save water b...
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By Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa>> The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Rac...
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By Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray The New York Times Global warming has focused concern on land and sky as soaring temperatures intensify hurricanes, droughts and wildfires. But another climate crisis is unfolding, underfoot and out of view. Many of the aq...
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By Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray The New York Times Global warming has focused concern on land and sky as soaring temperatures intensify hurricanes, droughts and wildfires. But another climate crisis is unfolding, underfoot and out of view. Many of the aq...
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By Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly and John Flesher The Associated Press WASHINGTON>> The Biden administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands Tuesday, saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court sharply limited the federal government’s jurisdiction over them....
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By Michael Roberts and Andres Jimenez Guest Commentary The Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision in Arizona vs. Navajo Nation continues a legacy of restricted water access for Indigenous peoples and limits their access to abundant drinking water, clean drinking water, and adequately treated resident...
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By Julie McCluskie Guest Commentary We’ve reached the crisis point for the Colorado River and the future of the American Southwest. We need creative solutions for living with a river that contains less water yet has more demands for its limited supplies. As a resident of the high country, I know w...
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Increased moisture this year does not fix state’s water woes By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Colorado is drought-free for the first time since 2019 — a stark change from a year ago, when 98% of the state was under drought conditions. A winter filled with heavy snow and a cooler, wet...
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By Michael Phillis and Sam Metz The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY>> On some parts of the Navajo Nation, where about one-third of the people lack reliable access to clean water, people have to drive for miles on red dirt roads to lug water home. Others rely on unregulated wells or water del...
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By Scott Sonner The Associated Press RENO, Nev.>> Water conflicts are nothing new to the arid West, where myriad users long have vied for their share of the precious resource from California’s Central Valley to the Colorado and Missouri rivers. But few have waded into the legal question pla...
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  Developers look for more incentives to aid bottom line; cities, towns employ variety of strategies in face of constrained supplies By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. When Greg King starts watering outdoors at his Douglas County home, the meter starts spinning to show him how much wat...
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Federal officials praise proposal, though will it save enough water? By Conrad Swanson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. All seven states in the Colorado River Basin now agree on an apparent short-term breakthrough in negotiations to save water from their drying region and it’s enough of a consensus for fe...
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Here are comparisons to put metric in context By Conrad Swanson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. While state and federal officials, farmers and the heads of Native American tribes work intensely to conserve water from the drying Colorado River, one term appears more often than probably any other: the acre...
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    Robert Brears Published May 9, 2023 + Follow Welcome to Our Future Water's newsletter on "Adapting to a Future of Extremes: Green, Grey, and Hybrid Solutions for Urban Water Management," which focuses on the opportunities in urban water management in the face of climate change...
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  By Ken Ritter and Terry Tang The Associated Press PHOENIX>> A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project. The $233 million pact wit...
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  By Bruce Finley This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Colorado’s mountain snowpack heading into spring on Wednesday measured at 136% of the 30-year norm — an indicator that water supplies could swell depending on the overall drought, soil moisture, melting rates and future precipitation. “The snowpack h...
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COMMERCE CITY City rules don’t allow residents to tear out turf from grass strip between sidewalk, road By John Aguilar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. COMMERCE CITY>> Derek Rinehart wants to disrupt the cohesion in his neighborhood — and he wants to save hundreds of gallons of water doing it. Bu...
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  The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE>> Record snowfall and rain have helped to loosen drought’s grip on parts of the West as national forecasters and climate experts warned Thursday that some areas should expect more flooding as the snow begins to melt. The winter precipitation wiped out...
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By Gabe Stern The Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev.>> Nevada lawmakers are considering a remarkable shift in allowing the water agency that manages the Colorado River supply for Las Vegas to limit single-family residential use in the desert city and surrounding county. It’s another potenti...
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