Water

This past weekend about 100 volunteers with the Rio Reimagined initiative collected more than six tons of trash during their annual cleanup. From small cans to tires and mirrors, the trash came from a small portion of the Salt River stretching between 91st to 95th avenue.

While Resolution Copper is taking a proactive approach to meet its tremendous water needs, their actions may still have a lasting and severe impact on the local hydrological landscape around Oak Flat.

The project to build three new dams comes as the state looks to a future where climate change threatens access to water in the desert state.

The Lower Basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada are asking for a fresh look at proposals for sharing the shrinking water supply and changes to Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam.

Homebuilders and Republican state lawmakers have filed a lawsuit seeking to void a rule requiring them to prove they have access to alternative water supplies in certain parts of the state.

Some parts of the Mexican state of Sonora face the most extreme drought category, known as “exceptional” drought.

Researchers have gotten a good and unique look at the country’s groundwater system. And it shows that system is more interconnected than scientists previously thought.

Artificial intelligence is growing in popularity. But, AI uses a lot of water, which is in increasingly short supply in places like Arizona. Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, joined The Show to talk through some of this.

President Donald Trump froze billions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act that was designed to protect water supplies for cities, farms and tribes.

As Arizona’s record-dry winter continues, Western water managers are quietly preparing for what many have called a “nuclear option” in the ongoing battle for who-gets-what from the quickly drying Colorado River.