Water

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

Six of the seven states that rely on the Colorado River proposed protecting the system’s major reservoirs with downstream reductions. But California, the biggest user, has its own plan under which it would avoid taking cuts.

By Wyatt Myskow

Texas Oilfield Waste Company Contributed $53,750 to Regulators Overseeing a Controversial Permit Application

By Martha Pskowski

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

Outdated EPA Standards Allow Oil Refineries to Pollute Waterways

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski

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

By Wyatt Myskow

Relentless Rise of Ocean Heat Content Drives Deadly Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

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

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Study: Higher Concentrations Of Arsenic, Uranium In Drinking Water In Black, Latino, Indigenous Communities

By Victoria St. Martin, Aydali Campa

When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

‘It Is Going to Take Real Cuts to Everyone’: Leaders Meet to Decide the Future of the Colorado River

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico’s Record-Breaking Wildfires

By Sara Van Note

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

By Georgina Gustin

Clean-Water Plea Suggests New Pennsylvania Governor Won’t Tolerate Violations by Energy Companies, Advocates Say

By Jon Hurdle

Fracking Company to Pay for Public Water System in Rural Pennsylvania Town

By Jon Hurdle