'Colorado River Reporting' with Alex Hager

By Tom Williams

Published December 7, 2023 at 2:59 PM MST

Today we’ll check in with reporter Alex Hager. You hear his reporting from the Colorado River Reporting Project regularly on UPR. Alex Hager has recently reported stories with the following headlines: Winter snow could help recharge the Colorado River. But what if it doesn't? A new climate report shows the hazards of drought to human health in the Southwest. Tap water is cheap, but old pipes and a shrinking Colorado River could change that. Colorado River growers say they’re ready to save water, but need to build trust with states and feds. New Colorado River rules will be hard to agree on. A new report shows just how tricky it could be.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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