western water woes

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Rural water users in Nevada are panicking over a proposal to create a market for the sale and purchase of water rights in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — State water authorities say California will likely face a critically dry year with much less runoff from the Sierra Nevada snowpack…

For many communities in the West, the water that flows out of kitchen faucets and bathroom showerheads starts high up in the mountains, as snowpack tucked…

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona is getting a jump start on what will be a yearslong process to address a dwindling but key water source in the U.S.…

Twenty-two miles outside of the nearest town (Wells, pop. 1,246), graffiti on a crumbling hotel wall reads: “Home on the Strange.” Down a dirt road,…

Central Arizona has been booming -- more people, more houses, more need for water. There’s also a long-term drought, and less water to buy from the…

For five years, Zay Lopez tended vegetables, hayfields and cornfields, chickens, and a small flock of sheep here on the western edge of Colorado’s Grand…

A rather quiet gathering of those who control the most precious resource in the West happened on the Strip last week. It was the annual Colorado River…

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — As things begin to dry out again in New Mexico, members of the arid state's congressional delegation are looking for ways to combat…

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has rescinded an emergency drought order nearly a year after it went into effect.The Daily Herald reports that…