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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…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — State water authorities say California will likely face a critically dry year with much less runoff from the Sierra Nevada snowpack…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 Gary Herbert has rescinded an emergency drought order nearly a year after it went into effect.The Daily Herald reports that…