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In a photo snapped from the air just a few days ago, tendrils of dark brown and blue reach out to each other across an ashen, sun-baked wasteland. The space between those outstretched fingers shrinks ...

Two days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, outgoing Interior Secretary Sally Jewell laid out a game plan for averting serious water shortages along the Colorado River. Jewell’s 10-page ...

California’s largest lake, the Salton Sea, is an accident. It was created in 1905 when a levee broke on an irrigation canal, flooding a giant desert playa. Today it has become a sticking point in ...

California's Imperial Irrigation District will get the last word on the seven-state Colorado River Drought Contingency Plans. And IID could end up with $200 million to restore the badly polluted and ...

ormer Southern Nevada Water Authority chief Pat Mulroy is backing an audacious idea she says could free up more Colorado River water and solve a mounting public health and environmental problem in the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By James Burky, The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Christian Flores and thousands of others on the USS Nimitz sailed ...