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Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a deal to significantly cut their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years. -
Three popular campgrounds at California’s Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Monday because of a forecast of flooding as warming temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada’s massive snowpack. -
Scientists say nearly half of the American West has emerged from drought following a winter marked by heavy snow and several massive rainstorms. -
Much of the famed valley at California's Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Friday due to a forecast of flooding as rising temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada's massive snowpack. -
Nitrate contamination of well water has been a decades-long problem in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys — and now stormwater has flushed more fertilizer and manure into aquifers. -
In recent years, an imbalance between the river’s flows and how much water users are promised has forced federal officials to consider steps never taken before. -
The Biden administration has evaluated how seven Western states that are reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River could dramatically cut their water use in the basin. -
Twelve of California’s 17 major reservoirs are now above their historical averages following three years of drought that drained them to dangerously low levels. -
Rep. Mike Levin helped secure the funds, which he said would save ratepayers up to $54 million compared with alternative financing strategies.1 -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will stop asking people to voluntarily cut their water use by 15%.
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