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Water/Drought

An irrigation ditch, center, carries river water toward Quechan tribal land along the long-depleted Colorado River, left, as it flows between California, right, and Arizona, on May 26, 2023 near Winterhaven, California. The Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation and the neighboring Bard Water District currently have voluntary seasonal fallowing programs which compensate farmers to not grow crops on some of their fields to boost water levels at Lake Mead. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

The Federal Bureau of Reclamation Announces Reduced Water Cuts for Colorado River States

By Wyatt Myskow
Heat radiates off of the panels of one of the solar farms in Desert Center, California, on Monday, May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way

By Wyatt Myskow

As the Colorado River Declines, Water Scarcity and the Hunt for New Sources Drive up  Rates

By Wyatt Myskow and Emma Peterson
Angie Mestas, a schoolteacher, used a lifetime of savings to drill a drinking well on her land in Los Sauces, Colorado. But she won't drink from it until she tests for arsenic and E. coli, which are common in the area. Credit: Melissa Bailey for KFF Health News

As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Rises

By Melissa Bailey, KFF Health News
Steve Turcotte, president and one of the founders of Los Charros Foundation, looks down on his cattle ranch property in the Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness in Winkelman, Arizona, on May 8, 2023. Photo by Emma Peterson for Inside Climate News

Preserving the Cowboy Way of Life

By Emma Peterson
Construction continues on a new section for homes at Festival Ranch on Oct. 24, 2022 in Buckeye, Arizona. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Amid Continuing Drought, Arizona Is Coming up With New Sources of Water—if Cities Can Afford Them

By Wyatt Myskow
People walk inside UN headquarters, ahead the UN Water Conference, on March 22, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images

UN Water Conference Highlights a Stubborn Shortage of Global Action

By Delaney Dryfoos
A stock pond south of Dallas dries up due to drought conditions. Across Texas, drought is taxing reservoirs and rivers and groundwater aquifers are being pumped faster than they can recharge. Currently, more than half the state is in drought. Credit: Paul Buck/AFP via Getty Images.

Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth

By Martha Pskowski
Two patches of land sit in a dried up lake bed in 2022. These were once islands in Laguna de Aculeoa, a popular freshwater lake for fishing, boating and swimming, just an hour from Santiago, Chile. The lake dried up completely in 2018 due to the ongoing megadrought.

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

Story and photos by James Whitlow Delano
In Mammoth Lakes, California, snow covers roofs next to snowbanks in March piled up from new and past storms in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the wake of an atmospheric river event. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

California Snowpack May Hold Record Amount of Water, With Significant Flooding Possible

By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Australian water scarcity activist Mina Guli completes her 200th marathon outside UN headquarters, ahead the UN Water Conference, on March 22, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images.

At the UN Water Conference, Running to Keep Up with an Ambitious 2030 Goal for Universal Water Rights

By Delaney Dryfoos
An aerial view of landslide damage in La Cañada Flintridge, California on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

By Bob Berwyn
Eric Balken, executive director of Glen Canyon Institute, walks along a sandbar once submerged by Lake Powell. As the reservoir drops to record lows, areas that were underwater for decades have begun to emerge. Credit: Alex Hager

Lake Powell Drops to a New Record Low as Feds Scramble to Prop it Up

By Alex Hager, KUNC
A view of the Colorado River from the Navajo Bridge in Marble Canyon, Arizona on Aug. 31, 2022. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

States Have Proposals, But No Consensus, On Curbing Water Shortages In Colorado River Basin

By Wyatt Myskow
Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross
More than two thirds of the Colorado River begins as snow in Colorado. However, warm temperatures and dry soil are steadily reducing the amount of snowmelt that makes its way into the river, which supplies 40 million people across the Southwest. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

This Winter’s Rain and Snow Won’t be Enough to Pull the West Out of Drought

By Alex Hager, KUNC
Construction continues in October 2022 on a new section of homes at Festival Ranch in Buckeye, Arizona. Future development in the city, 35 miles west of Phoenix, could be imperiled by a lack of water. The flight for aerial photography was provided by LightHawk. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images.

Arizona’s New Governor Takes on Water Conservation and Promises to Revise the State’s Groundwater Management Act

By Wyatt Myskow
Cal Fire firefighters battle the Oak Fire on July 23, 2022 near Mariposa, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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