Tribal representatives speak on panel during 2025 Colorado River Water Users Association. (Left to Right) Jenny Dumas, water attorney for the Jicarilla Apache Nation, Jason Hauter, attorney for the Gila River Indian Community, Dwight Witherspoon, Attorney for the Navajo Nation Department of Justice. (Photo: Jeniffer Solis/Nevada Current)
Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in the river’s two largest reservoirs, Lakes Powell and Mead, a move that has...
About 80% of the water goes to agriculture. If you’re using a big share and it’s more cost-effective, then that’s going to need to be the target,” said a co-author of the study. (Photo: Bureau of Reclamation Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)
The most cost-effective and quickest way to conserve the Colorado River’s shrinking water supply amid persistent drought and rapid population growth is changing how states handle the largest use of wa...