In an arid U.S. West, water agencies look to deliver purified wastewater directly to...
Western water experts are working to not only conserve water, but to also reuse as much wastewater as possible, including through direct potable reuse.
Tulare County’s never-ending drought brings dried up wells and plenty of misery
In the rural towns around Visalia, drought is a perpetual plight and wells are going dry.
These hay fields may know something we don’t: how to save the Colorado River
A $1 million science experiment on Colorado hay fields is backed by powerful water groups, farm interests, and environmentalists.
Wildfires and wetlands
Residents in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, see first-hand how wildfires can damage wetlands and watersheds vitally important to their water supply. Jerd Smith reports for...
Tip sheet: monitoring the West’s snowpack
What’s the current state of the snowpack? How have conditions changed over the season?
Tribal breakthrough? Four states, six tribes announce first formal talks on Colorado River negotiating...
Four states have embarked on formal meetings to negotiate jointly with some of the largest owners of Colorado River water rights: tribal communities.
Announcing grantees for The Water Desk’s California Media Project
The Water Desk has made $75,000 in grants to journalists and media outlets covering California water issues.
Water trouble in Rio Verde Foothills
An Arizona community may be ground zero for climate change in America. The Colorado River basin is in crisis — its reservoirs are running...
Judge dismisses several water uses in White River reservoir case
A water court judge has agreed with state engineers and dismissed several of a water conservancy district’s claims for water for a dam and reservoir project in northwest Colorado.
Arizona’s water supplies are drying up. How will its farmers survive?
By Stephen R. Miller, Food and Water Reporting Project
Photography by Bill Hatcher
You could almost visit Arizona without noticing it was a farming state. If you flew into...