Alex Hager
Senior Field Correspondent | [email protected]Alex Hager covers water for KJZZ. He has reported from each of the Colorado River basin’s seven states and Mexico while covering the cities, tribes, farms and ecosystems that rely on its water. His work has been featured on national programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Up First, Marketplace, The Indicator and Science Friday.
Hager has been on the water beat since 2021, most recently at KUNC in Colorado. Before that, he worked at Aspen Public Radio, where he covered the resort economy, the environment and the COVID-19 pandemic. He also reported on the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery for KDLG in Dillingham, Alaska. Hager has a journalism degree from Elon University.
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A coalition of conservation groups is calling on policymakers to finalize an agreement in the Lower Basin and approve it in the Arizona legislature. -
Leaders with the Central Arizona Project opened the door to potential lawsuits over the federal management of Colorado River water. -
KJZZ’s Alex Hager joined The Show to talk more about what some of the plans metro Phoenix cities have to make up for lost Colorado River water look like. -
Grand Canyon experts say the recent deadly flash floods in Bright Angel Creek were not unusual, but a wildfire burn scar and major manmade infrastructure in the area changed things. -
A system of text alerts may have helped evacuate people from harm's way during the recent deadly flooding along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. -
A federal plan for the Colorado River means big water cuts for Arizona. The Phoenix and Tucson areas will be hit hard. City leaders say they can keep taps flowing, but solutions will be expensive. -
Nevada is suing the federal government over cuts to its allocation of Colorado River water. It came as a surprise to many who follow water policy. -
Arizona is the only state where the Legislature has the power to sign off on new Colorado River plans, but the details of that process are murky. -
Water officials in Arizona said the state avoided worst-case water cuts, but could still file a lawsuit if it feels its water rights are being encroached. -
The federal government last month unveiled a framework for how Colorado River cuts might work. Now that framework has been filled in with big cuts to Arizona, California, and Nevada.
