Water Resources

Top water negotiators declined to speak at an upcoming conference amid closed-door meetings about the future of the water supply for 40 million people.

In response to the expiring rules for sharing the Colorado River, the authors of a new memo say states need to take shared water cutbacks to manage the river going forward.

A Native American law group has launched a free online resource to help tribal nations obtain legal information about their water rights. This comes at a time when tribes face increasing water challenges.

This is a rebroadcast from August 2024This week Laura Gelfand explores how and why water has flavor with Dr. Christy Spackman, author of "The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage."

USU Extension's Roslynn McCann talks about the benefits of rainwater harvesting and shares tips on getting started.

Today we’ll check in with reporter Alex Hager. You hear his reporting from the Colorado River Reporting Project regularly on UPR.

Throughout history, cities and towns have often been established along the banks of rivers, because these waterways provide a source of drinking water, power, and transport links to other communities. The City of Logan, Utah, is no exception.

Water crises are nothing new. Indeed they’ve influenced the very course of human history again and again but we’ve never had a planet with 10 billion people on it before, and so can we solve the water crisis at a global scale?

Nature lovers need to be concerned about invasive aquatic species, especially the devastating potential of quagga mussels and their close relatives zebra mussels.

The Food and Water Watch published a report detailing threats to Colorado River Basin and water stability from Big Ag.