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New rules for sharing the Colorado River start today (opens the original)
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Starting today, California, Arizona and Nevada will get a lot less water. That's because of new federal rules for the seven states that share the Colorado River. Those states are still scrambling to figure out how they'll bear the pain of those reductions, as KJZZ's Alex Hager reports. ALEX HAGER, BYLINE: After 20 years under the old rules, the new ones reckon with an uncomfortable reality - there just isn't enough water in the Colorado River to supply the nearly 40 million people who've come to
New Colorado River rules start Oct. 1, but questions linger about Arizona water cutbacks (opens the original)
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New rules for the Colorado River officially go into effect on Thursday, but they won't bring changes to Arizona's water quite yet. The state is still working on a three-way deal with California and Nevada to spread out the pain of water cutbacks. Arizona's water cuts will become official on Jan. 1, 2027, and Arizona's top water negotiator told KJZZ he's "very optimistic" about progress on the three-state deal that must be signed by then. To understand the complicated timeline for new water rules
Snow is critical for Arizona's water, this study found that measurements can vary wildly (opens the original)
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When water managers in Arizona are trying to plan for how much water they’ll get from rivers and reservoirs, they look to the mountain snow. A new study compares different programs for measuring that snow, and found that they produce wildly different estimates. The study, published in the journal Water Resources Research, mostly found problems with long-term models, and said most water managers in the Southwest are using more accurate systems for predicting the amount of water in reservoirs in t
Birders at Phoenix Tres Rios Wetlands recently spotted a bird that is almost never seen in Arizona (opens the original)
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In a quiet corner of southwest Phoenix, a rare visitor rested his wings. Earlier this month, birders marveled at a surprise appearance by a wood stork, a bird that is almost never seen in Arizona. Photos of the wading bird, with its white feathers, spindly legs and long, orange beak, made the rounds on social media. The stork was spotted at Tres Rios Wetlands in Phoenix, a unique 700-acre section of wet, marshy habitat created with cleaned-up discharge from a nearby wastewater treatment plant. T
Amazon will spend millions to help save Colorado River water (opens the original)
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It’ll take a lot of money to help save water from the shrinking Colorado River. Now, Amazon is helping foot the bill. The ecommerce giant announced that it would send $20 million to water-saving projects in Arizona and California, kicking off a new longer-term effort to rally money for water conservation. The company formed a new coalition, dubbed the “Colorado River Basin Collaborative,” which collectively aims to spend $100 million on water conservation across two years. “Companies that benefi
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