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Speaker Wilson announced his intention to introduce legislation in order to create Utah Water Ways. This would be a nonprofit, public-private partnership with the mission to help educate Utahns on how to conserve water.
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The Department of the Interior designated $4 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act for drought mitigation in the Colorado River basin.
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Water agencies in Southern California have agreed to cut back 400,000 acre-feet each year for four years. The deal between agencies supplying cities and farms comes amid federal pressure to reduce use of the shrinking river.
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Xeriscaping? Charging higher fees? These cities are saving precious water by easing landscape rules, providing incentives and improving fixtures.
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Through several conservation programs and local ordinances restricting water usage, Utahns have saved billions of gallons of water as the state continues to endure its ongoing drought.
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The seven states that rely on the river blew past an August 16 deadline without a plan to conserve 2 to 4 million acre-feet of water.
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Native people have lived in the Southwest for millennia and have traditional ways to manage water that have worked for them. When settlers arrived, they upended that system. Now, tribes in the Colorado River Basin are trying to elevate indigenous approaches to water management.
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States in the Colorado River Basin have failed to meet a federal deadline to conserve an unprecedented amount of water. The lack of consensus on how to wean off the river’s dwindling supply puts the water source for 40 million in the Southwest in jeopardy.
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As the Colorado River shrinks, water managers in the basin are looking to the ocean. Desalination could add fresh water to a drying region.
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Utah Governor Spencer Cox released the third chapter of Utah’s Coordinated Action Plan for Water on Wednesday, which aims to balance water conservation, agriculture and state growth.