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With expectations of a potentially low water year, SKQ dam operators worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers this spring ...
Jeremy Butcher, NorthWestern Energy’s manager of Power Generation, said water from Hebgen Reservoir plays a vital role in ...
With a hot, dry summer forecast and drought already expanding in most of Montana, FWP is hosting a town hall on Wednesday at noon to discuss plans for fisheries.
One of the wettest Mays in the last 1 ½ centuries has eliminated extreme drought in western North Dakota, though the region ...
As Colorado River experts and advocates gather for an annual conference, a scientist's harsh climate warning clouds efforts ...
Overuse and climate change are rapidly depleting groundwater throughout the region, but aquifers are not part of the ...
Melting snow from California's Sierra Nevada is filling reservoirs. But dry conditions have shrunk the flow of the Colorado ...
As the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined, even larger amounts of groundwater have been drained from aquifers. Using ...
As the Colorado River ... to be left dry to bring water consumption into balance with the limited supply. “Climate warming is driving this drying of the Colorado River Basin for the long ...
In Tucson, April’s average temperature of 69.6 degrees was 2.6 degrees above normal ... From now through mid-May across the river basin, continued warm and dry weather is likely, with ...
Cody Moser, a hydrologist with the Colorado River Basin Forecast Center ... The weather was atypically dry in April. Precipitation in the watershed above Lake Powell was just 60 percent of normal last ...
It was 32% of normal in the Salt River Basin above Phoenix ... 2017 and 2019 — were all followed by very dry years. Most notably, the 2019 wet year was followed by three straight dry years ...