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The proposal made on Monday by the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management would tighten limits on gas flaring on federal land and require energy companies to better detect methane leaks.
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It's the first sign of what could lead to federal action to protect the once-massive but shrinking reservoirs behind them.
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A Nevada water agency has taken the first concrete step toward accounting for evaporation and other losses in the Colorado River’s Lower Basin.
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The Department of the Interior designated $4 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act for drought mitigation in the Colorado River basin.
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The feds are giving Colorado River states until the end of 2024 to prepare for what would amount to a significant cut in annual water allocations to users in Nevada, California and Arizona.
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced plans to spend money from the Inflation Reduction Act on water conservation measures in the Colorado River basin. Sources told KUNC that could include buying water from farmers and ranchers to help boost levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
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One hundred years after the signing of the Colorado River Compact, many Native American tribes still struggle to fully secure rights in river's basin.
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Colorado River tributaries serve relatively small portions of northwest and southwest New Mexico. But the basin’s water is essential for the state’s largest city: Albuquerque.
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A report suggests the HOUSES Act would fill a good chunk of the nation’s housing shortage. But it’s not that easy.
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A summer deadline approaches for state leaders to agree on how to cut their water use from the Colorado River.
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Groups in Iron County and Washington County claim there’s unallocated water in underground aquifers, and they’re asking the state for those rights.
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More than 5,000 members of the Navajo Nation live on the Utah side of the reservation but only about half of Navajo households in San Juan County have running water.