In recent days we’ve been in local and national news outlets talking about the failure by negotiators on the Colorado River to hash out a long-term deal. And while it is easy to be a critic. It is hard to…
What happens on the Colorado River doesn’t stay on the Colorado River. Indeed, the river system is not like a night on the Las Vegas Strip. When problems arise on the beleaguered system, the ancillary impacts ripple throughout the…
Expect the unexpected in natural resource politics in the year 2025.
Montana Congressman and former Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, stripped out a provision from the Trump tax bill facilitating the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands…
The Colorado River is a reflection of who we are as a society. And what is staring at us in the mirror is not pretty.
There is not water available for more development on the Colorado River. But Congress is taking…
Someone recently asked us: You’re the Great Basin Water Network. Why do you work in the Colorado River Basin? It’s a fair question that I’ve answered before.
At GBWN, we understand geography and human constructs. The Colorado River Basin and the…
Living Rivers-Colorado Riverkeeper, Great Basin Water Network and the Center for Biological Diversity released the following statements after it was revealed that Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy’s plan to sell off thousands of acres of public land in Southern Utah includes…
Last night, the Nevada Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections held a hearing on a bill that urges President Trump and the Congress to sign off on a federal plan to create urban sprawl from the Las Vegas Valley…
The United States is without a Senate-confirmed cabinet member overseeing essential functions of water management in the western United States. As is common in the early days of new presidential administrations, the Bureau of Reclamation is now relying on an…
Last week GBWN got a copy of a letter authored by the top water managers in the Lower Basin advocating for the new administration to study and consider the major threats looming at Glen Canyon Dam. This is an unprecedented…
As we revealed a few weeks ago, there were many efforts underway by the State of Utah to exert more control on the Colorado River. And we are here to report that one of those efforts in the statehouse is…
Nothing says “Utah” like an effort to subvert federal authority on matters relating to land or water. Take for example HJR9, the latest gesture by Beehive State lawmakers to force their will upon those pesky requirements of the Colorado River…
It just wouldn't feel like August if federal officials weren't bracing us for more water cuts —triggered by federal projections of reservoir elevations — for the Lower Basin at Lake Mead. Annual reductions, announced in mid-August, are baked into the…
The federal government allows only one state in the west to profit from public land sales, and it happens to be the driest: Nevada. The policy’s legacy is one where billions of dollars flow into government coffers to pay…
As the push for more pipelines and sprawl in Vegas continues, we must ask: Is this the right time to take more water from Lake Mead?
Like the ouroboros snake that eats itself, the Western growth machine just won’t quit…
A recent approval from the Utah State Engineer raises questions about permitting a mine near a radioactive site with contaminated groundwater.
Utah’s love of lithium will not be foiled by a radioactive waste site. The Utah State Engineer…
Bureau’s Colorado River Experiment Demonstrates Magnitude of Water Crisis at Glen Canyon Dam Archaic Design of Glen Canyon Dam Plumbing jeopardizes water supply for 30 million people in California, Arizona, Nevada, requiring urgent need to solve this problem during…
Anson Resources, a company vying to mine lithium from deep brines in the Colorado River Basin, had a major test well failure this week.
On March 8, reports emerged from Green River, Utah, of a test well failure and controlled flows…
Anson Resources, a company vying to mine lithium from deep brines in the Colorado River Basin, had a major test well failure this week.
On March 8, reports emerged from Green River, Utah, of a test well failure and controlled flows…
Near one of the last desert terminal lakes in the American West, water profiteers continue to scour the desert looking to gain.
As real estate developers, hedge funds, and tech bros fight over the last drops in aquifers and surface water…
Today the Great Basin Water Network and Living Rivers released the following statements after the Bureau of Reclamation published its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement For Near-Term Colorado River Operations (FEIS).
The document imposes new emergency criteria on Arizona, California, and Nevada…