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The Colorado River Basin has lost as much groundwater as the entire volume of Lake Mead
Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...
The Colorado River Basin’s groundwater is disappearing faster than the river itself
The Colorado River Basin lost an alarming amount of groundwater over the past 20 years, a new study found. Nearly 28 million acre-feet of water has been depleted from the region, nearly the volume of ...
UPDATE: Lower Colorado River access could be restored as soon as Tuesday after being cut off Monday
The loss was because environmental flows required by the TCEQ, mayor Paulette Guajardo and city manager Peter Zanoni said ...
The Colorado River is running low. The picture looks even worse underground, study says.
The Colorado River Basin has lost twice as much groundwater since 2003 as water taken out of its reservoirs, according to a ...
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Current operation guidelines for the Colorado River, which provides water to 40 million, expire at end of 2026
As the Colorado River shrinks due to drought and climate change, the negotiators must decide who will take less water — and ...
Meager snowpack adds to Colorado River’s woes, straining flows to Southern California
Melting snow from California's Sierra Nevada is filling reservoirs. But dry conditions have shrunk the flow of the Colorado ...
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Study: Groundwater loss across Colorado River Basin threatens economic security
— Most of the total water losses occurred in the drier Lower Colorado River basin. It lost 20.7 million acre-feet of ...
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Lower Colorado River farmers fear economic calamity from water cuts
Farmers along the Lower Colorado River in Southern Arizona and Southern California are bracing for severe reductions next year in their river water supplies — cuts they say could lead to ...
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Colorado River Basin has lost as much water as a full Lake Mead since 2003, study says
The researchers found that groundwater was being depleted faster than it could be restored, and that total water loss was ...
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Supreme Court overturns lower court decision preventing oil railway along Colorado River
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) -The Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that prevented a proposed 88-mile railway running along the Colorado River. The Uinta Basin Railway would run from ...