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The lawsuit filed in federal court in Arizona asks that the state be allowed to take unilateral action it believes necessary to protect its residents.
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Seven states in the U.S. West — including Arizona — are facing a deadline from the federal government to come up with a plan to use substantially less Colorado River water in 2023.
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation would receive $4 billion in drought funding from the Inflation Reduction Act that was recently passed by the U-S Senate.
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Federal officials say a transformer at Hoover Dam caught fire Tuesday morning. It started at about 10 a.m. and it was extinguished about a half-an-hour later by the Bureau of Reclamation Hoover fire brigade.
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Federal water officials plan an experimental flow on the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam to improve egg-laying conditions for aquatic insects.
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Lake Powell on the Colorado River has lost nearly seven percent of its storage capacity since it was built in 1963. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports, that’s due to sediment washing into the reservoir.
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation decided against sending water rushing through the Grand Canyon this fall to redeposit sediment because of persistent drought.
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Federal water officials say major reservoirs on the Colorado River are likely to keep dropping as the Southwest continues to experience a prolonged…
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Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly is calling for a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on this week’s first-ever Colorado River shortage declaration. It…
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U.S. officials declared the first-ever water shortage from a river that serves 40 million people in the West. The forecast Monday means some Arizona…