Alex Hager
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A total of five buildings caught on fire in the two separate blazes on Sunday.
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This year was a bad one for the Colorado River. Climate change is shrinking the water supply and policymakers are struggling to reach a deal that would cut back demand.
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Journalists, scientists, farmers and city officials packed the conference center at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas to watch water managers hash out the river’s future in the public eye.
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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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Arizona state climatologist Erinanne Saffell said the rain gives a boost to plants and helps reduce the risk of wildfire, but won’t make much of a dent in the decades-long water supply-demand imbalance along the Colorado River.
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The Southwest may be in for some drought relief this summer, as the monsoon season is off to a strong start.
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$240 million from the bipartisan infrastructure law is being allocated for improvements across 11 states.
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Last year Colorado saw the two largest wildfires in it's history, destroying hundreds of homes and 600 square miles of forest. Largely unbothered, though, are beavers, whose wet habitats offer refuge.