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Will Lake Powell become Lake Mud? Inside the growing sediment crisis
11-04-2024 by Emma Pitts
In 1963, the Glen Canyon Dam was built. It created Lake Powell Reservoir, which straddles Utah and Arizona, to ensure a water supply for the...
Video: How do southern Utah tribes view the Colorado River?
11-04-2024 by Stephanie DeGraw
The Colorado River and its tributaries, including the Virgin River in southwest Utah, are considered among Native Americans' most sacred pie...
‘This river has a spirit’: Native Americans share ancestral ties to Colorado River and its tributaries
11-04-2024 by Stephanie DeGraw
Autumn Gillard's dark eyes are serious as she gazes upon the hordes of visitors on the Virgin River bank in Zion National Park. The striking...
Utah teens lead 2034 Olympics-inspired protest supporting Great Salt Lake
10-31-2024 by Mariah Maynes/KSL NR
SALT LAKE CITY — A group of Utah teens held an Olympics-inspired protest Saturday, drawing attention to the negative impacts a drying Great...
With water rights in hand, Navajo still hope to restore farms on Utah’s San Juan
10-31-2024 by David Condos
Navajo family farms once lined the San Juan River in southeast Utah, but many have fallen idle. A water rights settlement with Utah has give...
Navajo food traditions tap into the past, and future, of farming the arid Southwest
10-31-2024 by David Condos
When you imagine a ripe, juicy peach, you might not picture it growing in a red rock canyon. Centuries ago, however, tribes in the Four Corn...
Historic water rights settlement could help Indigenous farmers thrive
10-31-2024 by Mark Wetzel and Shelby Lofton
The San Juan River creates a winding green ribbon through southeast Utah’s red rock country. The Colorado River tributary is a vital water s...
Utah artist kicks of Wake the Great Salt Lake with 'By a Thread' exhibit
10-31-2024 by Mariah Maynes
SALT LAKE CITY – Ogden artist Kellie Bornhoft’s has a goal with her latest work, ‘By a Thread.’ She wants to break the notion that the Great...
Why do you love the lake? And what are you willing to give up to protect it?
10-30-2024 by Heather May
The Great Salt Lake Collaborative is partnering with Plan-B Theatre on a play about the Great Salt Lake, through Salt Lake City Arts Council...
Your input is needed on a new plan to manage the Great Salt Lake
10-23-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — Meg Cartwright is worried about the Great Salt Lake. "I really care about it a lot and I know what will happen if we don’...
At Utah water summit, updates on the Colorado River, Great Salt Lake and property taxes
10-17-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — House Speaker Mike Schultz hosted lawmakers for a water policy summit where he urged his colleagues to ensure efforts are t...
Lawsuit filed over Green River lithium project
10-17-2024 by Ben Winslow
MOAB, Utah — A lawsuit has been filed challenging a lithium extraction project near the Green River. Living Rivers, the Great Basin Water...
Coalition lawsuit challenges Green River lithium mining approval
10-17-2024 by Mariah Maynes
GREEN RIVER, Utah — On Wednesday, a conservation coalition filed a lawsuit challenging the approval of an Australian company’s plan for Gree...
Video: It was meant to help the Great Salt Lake and Colorado River, so why isn't anyone using it?
10-16-2024 by Ben Winslow
NEPHI, Utah — It was an idea crafted by the Utah State Legislature to help ensure that water saved through conservation and other efforts co...
More lithium projects approved in Utah’s redrock country
10-15-2024 by Anastasia Hufham
A lithium boom in southeastern Utah is only getting bigger, and the mining companies involved in two new explorations for the mineral want t...
House Speaker to put a 'pause' on major new water legislation in Utah
10-15-2024 by Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — House Speaker Mike Schultz is planning to put a pause on any major new water legislation to see how big bills already passe...
Photo essay: How the Green River gives life to a rural Utah town
10-09-2024 by Brice Tucker
The Colorado River Collaborative recently sent two journalists from the Deseret News — reporter Amy Joi O'Donoghue and photographer Brice Tu...
Scientists study implications of oxygen level changes on Lake Powell’s fish population, algae
10-09-2024 by Stephanie DeGraw
A delicate balance of oxygen levels in Lake Powell affects the fish that live in the water, and scientists are monitoring whether recent cha...
Farmers help a small town thrive with a big assist from a river
10-08-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Green River, Utah’s main waterway, helps sustain this southeastern Utah town Mark Twain once said, “When one has tasted watermelon, he kn...
Melons and the Green River: Giving life to a rural Utah town
10-08-2024 by Amy Joi O’Donoghue
How life in Green River is intertwined with water from the river that shares its name Sonya Nelson Spackman stood in line on a mild Saturd...
Ongoing South Weber pipeline project will add earthquake resiliency to water system
10-08-2024 by Rob Nielsen
SOUTH WEBER — The immense natural processes that have formed the Earth over billions of years haven’t come to a stop just because modern soc...
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