Due to the low levels of water, the federal government has declared a Tier 1 water shortage in the Colorado River for the first time ever. This declaration reduces the amount of water that Arizona, ...

Clare Carlson ’23 graduated with an economics major and minor in environmental studies and was a 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The ...

Lake Mead is at its lowest level since it was filled nearly 90 years ago, Lake Powell also at a historic low It was 42C (108F) degrees as we motored across Nevada’s Lake Mead in our rented pontoon ...

The 10-year blueprint mandates water cuts of up to 40% for California, Arizona and Nevada It’s official: after years of tense negotiations and missed deadlines, there is finally a plan to govern the ...