Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.

‘None of us is in the exact same situation.’

AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, is going to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

According to a new report, California groundwater regulations threaten to put many small farms out of business.

With states still brawling over how to share dwindling flows, the Trump administration is about to take control.

California, Arizona and Nevada offered to cut water use to ease the Colorado River crisis. The Trump administration is set to adopt much of their proposal.

Californians with contaminated water may have to wait longer for fixes as the state's drinking water program faces a plunge.

The California company Cadiz has been trying for years to pipe water out of the Mojave Desert. The Trump administration approved a plan for a pipeline.

CalMatters and Grist seek a reporter to cover the impacts of climate change in California’s Central Valley, a vibrant and diverse community that serves as the nation’s bread basket while sitting at the center of important climate issues.   In this role, you’ll be based at CalMatters, a statewide nonprofit newsroom that wins national awards for […]

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.

Why Springs Are the Quiet Center of the Freshwater World

The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.

The Colorado has been struggling for decades. This summer could bring it to the brink, threatening endangered wildlife and communities.

drying up farmland is not the solutionSome Colorado River experts are floating a concept to address the basin’s water woes that is both radical and mundane: permanently reducing the amount of water us...

Desalination. Pipelines. Cloud seeding. Those are just a few ideas for how the Trump administration should save the desiccated waterway.

Once heavily channelized, the Gila River is reclaiming its big, messy floodplain — with lessons for the rest of the Southwest.

The settlement calls for reducing groundwater pumping along the dwindling river and retiring water rights from irrigated farmland in southern New Mexico.

The city is looking into emergency conservation measures as most options for additional water have been tapped or are years from completion.

Watch how a legacy of oil drilling and regulatory failure destroyed one Oklahoma family’s dream home and contaminated another family’s drinking water.

Breaking the Overton Window

Newsom celebrates California’s clean drinking water progress as his administration’s climate overhaul threatens to upend a key source of funding.

The cost of water and related services is rising twice as fast as inflation while utilities scramble to cope with escalating droughts and more intense storms.

In the San Luis Valley, the ongoing megadrought and a record-low snowpack are draining groundwater and increasing its concentrations of toxic metals. There are few protections for residents drinking f...

City leaders intend to make unprecedented cuts to water use in September but aren’t sure exactly how, as schools and hospitals drill for water.

A state judge ruled this week that the Arizona Department of Water Resources illegally changed how it evaluates whether there’s enough groundwater to build new homes in parts of the Valley.

Emergency federal actions are underway to save Lake Powell as the Colorado River crisis intensifies.

In this workshop, you will learn about the historical impacts of river projects. You will also understand the threats to LCT and the Kooyooe, Truckee River flow management, water demands for AI threat...

Caroline Tracey’s debut essay collection documents the decline of salt lakes, and what their strange ecosystems can teach us about confronting the losses of climate change.

Attacks on civilian systems, including water systems, must be condemned and punished under the laws of war.

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

And "nonfunctional turf" taken to court.

Arizona's governor says the state will start limiting groundwater pumping in an area where a Saudi farm grows hay and aquifer levels are dropping.

The Bureau of Reclamation on Friday released a draft of options for how to manage the Colorado River water supply for years to come.

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.

As Lake Powell drops toward critical thresholds, engineers are making long-term infrastructure decisions even as post-2026 Colorado River rules remain unresolved.

Water costs are confusing — even for the experts. A new study shows huge differences in what cities and farm water districts pay for supplies from rivers and reservoirs in California, Arizona, and Nev...

Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters