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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The states that share water from the river may be heading for a Supreme Court battle amid stalled negotiations. -
States that use the Colorado River say they want to avoid litigation about its future, but are unable to agree on a plan to share water. -
Colorado’s negotiator, Becky Mitchell, and Nevada’s, John Entsminger, spoke to a crowd of policy experts and answered questions from the audience. -
Bureau of Reclamation commissioner Scott Cameron said his agency is working on a new plan for sharing water, but can't provide exact dates yet. -
A small section of the Salt River is wet and lush only minutes from downtown Phoenix. The area near the Rio Salado Audubon Center is rare oasis of water in the mostly-dry river bed. -
An agreement with the San Diego County Water authority could allow Arizona to benefit from desalinated ocean water to help deal with shortages on the Colorado River. -
Aubrey Bettencourt will likely be nominated to run the Bureau of Reclamation, the top federal agency on the Colorado River, at a tense time for negotiations about sharing the water supply. -
Water experts are calling for urgent changes at Lake Powell and Lake Mead, as a dry winter could send reservoir levels dangerously low. -
A team of researchers at Arizona State University is building models to track the amount of water in snow, soils and streams. -
The town of Superior will enter an agreement with the mining company to add water to Queen Creek, which is usually dry.
