After months of negotiations, seven Western states along the Colorado River have agreed to water cuts over the next three years to help keep two of the main reservoirs, Lake Mead…
In a move to stave off a proposed first-in-history drastic reduction by the federal government of water that California, Nevada and Arizona receive from the Colorado River, the trio of…
The Interior Department on Monday said it would review a plan submitted by Arizona, California and Nevada to conserve 3 million acre-feet of Colorado River water over the next three years.
The plan…
Nevada, California and Arizona have reached an agreement on a plan to significantly reduce water use along the Colorado River, a deal that comes after nearly a year’s worth of…
Nearly a year after the federal government asked the Colorado River Basin states to agree on a plan to save the Colorado River, the states have finally made a deal.…
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kyle Roerink, Executive Director
Great Basin Water Network
702-324-9662
kyleroerink@greatbasinwater.org
BLM ISSUES A MAJOR SETBACK TO IRON COUNTY WATER GRAB
Baker, NV –– Opponents of the proposed Cedar City Pipeline and Water Grab…
Carson City, NV –– The Great Basin Water Network released the following statement on the release of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Near-Term Operations of the Colorado…
Nevada lawmakers have proposed legislation that would allow the state to buy out water rights and retire them. The program would be administered by the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural…
In Nevada, Bloomberg's Kal Penn investigates the lasting impacts of the Colorado River Compact, the 1922 agreement that doles out water rights to seven states. The system, over-optimistic from the…
The legislation tackles developing issues across the state: Managing Humboldt River where groundwater pumping is connected to the flows of the river; How to share water in the Lower White River…
Four states that use water from the Colorado River are asking the federal government to pause some water releases from Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, which…
Experts and advocates say the moves represent a step in the right direction for Utah’s capital, but it’s going to take more than one community to save the city’s namesake…
The Glen Canyon Dam is just 32 feed away from the "minimum power pool" - the point at which it would no longer generate power for the Basin States. As…
Alternatives for major modifications to Glen Canyon Dam surfaced Tuesday at a public meeting, the first acknowledgment by the federal government that the dam could require changes. But water conservation…
The Interior Department privately floated a plan to drill new tunnels through Glen Canyon dam along the Colorado River in a bid to enable water to flow out of the…
One proposal would bring cuts of 2 million acre-feet of water for users pulling from the drought-choked Colorado River system, mostly affecting California, Nevada and Arizona, in an attempt to…
California released a proposed plan for Colorado River water conservation that directly contradicts a separate plan proposed by the basin’s six other states Kyle Roerink, executive director of the Great…
Hopes to forge a plan to reduce Colorado River Basin water use by 15% to 25% this year disintegrated this week with dueling proposals that pit California against Arizona and…
Politics and threatened litigation are replacing what is left of the water in the Colorado River as the seven basin states that rely on the West’s largest river try to…
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…