Historically excluded from Colorado River policy, tribes want a say in how the dwindling resource is used. Access to clean water is a start. December 7, 2021 By Michael Elizabeth Sakas Ignacio residents, Marcella Gomez and Bernard Candelaria fill up thier water tanks at the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s water distribution center south of Ignacio, […]
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With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water?
Mientras que los gigantes de la agricultura sacan el agua para así obtener ganancias, los pequeños agricultores están en problemas.
Record-breaking drought along the Wasatch Front forces tough decisions about water supply.
For two decades, the Bureau of Reclamation incentivized farmers to pump water faster than the resource could recover, despite warnings from its own scientists. This year, residents of Klamath County paid the price, as hundreds of household wells went dry.
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Where is the water going?
Small farmers struggle as ag titans wheel water for profit
El terreno sobre el que se construyó Corcoran se ha derrumbado lenta pero constantemente, una situación causada principalmente por la agricultura y no por la naturaleza.
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The Gambia’s Water Paradox
How a country with plentiful water resources is failing to provide safe water to its people
The Gila River Indian Community is restoring its “lifeblood” back through innovative partnerships and water exchanges.
Navajo-Gallup water delay spurs problem solving in arid Southwest May 7, 2021 By Elizabeth MillerNew Mexico In Depth Three new water tanks holding 5.7 million gallons sit on a bluff north of town. San Juan river water will flow into these tanks, and from there will be largely gravity fed through the new water system […]