Photo: Purified recycled water fills a flask after a demonstration in Carson, California, in May 2022. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California hopes to finish a multibillion-dollar expansion of the facility, a project that has drawn financial support from water agencies in Nevada and Arizona. (Photo by Alex Hager/KUNC) It looks like a normal
Photo: People unload a boat on the shores of Lake Powell in April. Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoirs, saw a boost from winter snow, but Colorado River policymakers are still under pressure to find long-term changes to water demand in the Southwest. (Photo by Alex Hager/KUNC) Federal officials are easing water
Photo: Lush green lawns are absent in many residential areas of Tucson, having been replaced by cacti and trees that are native to the Sonoran Desert in an effort to reduce water use. (Photo by Matt Vasilogambros/Stateline) There are no lush green lawns among the rows of single-family homes that line a quiet boulevard a
Photo: The San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona is the sort of seasonal waterway that could be affected by new Waters of the United States rules being developed by federal regulators after the Supreme Court sharply narrowed previous WOTUS regulations. (Photo courtesy Sandy Bahr/Sierra Club, Grand Canyon Chapter) As regulators and advocates grapple with the
Photo: Water from the Colorado River flows through the East Highline Canal on its way to farms in Imperial Valley on June 20, 2023. Climate change is shrinking the river’s supply, and farms in the area are under pressure to reduce demand. (Photo by Alex Hager/KUNC) Under the broiling hot sun of California’s Imperial Valley,
Photo: JB Hamby speaks at a conference in Boulder, Colorado, on June 8, 2023. Hamby, along with delegates from the other six states that use water from the Colorado River, must agree on new water sharing rules by 2026. (Photo by Alex Hager/KUNC) California’s Imperial Valley is one of the few places where a 95-degree