The district’s board last week approved the plan to pay farmers $300 per acre-foot of water they forgo during a 45-day or 60-day period starting in August. Those growing alfalfa or two other ...

Nearly half — 46% — of all the water drawn from the Colorado River goes to growing feed for beef and dairy cows, according to a recent study published in the journal Communications Earth ...

The proposals released last week by states in the Upper and Lower Basins of the Colorado River are one volley in ongoing negotiations to set rules for how water will be released to the states ...

The Delaware River's salt front -- the line where ocean water and freshwater meet -- has been shifting upstream from its typical spot near Wilmington to about 20 miles north, near the Philadelphia ...

The river first failed to reach the Sea of Cortez in the 1960s and, as diversions in Arizona and elsewhere expanded, has ceased to reach the sea altogether since the 1990s — save for an ...

First came 2002. Water officials, verging on panic, restricted outdoor water use. The drought was believed to be the most severe in 500 years. Fine, thought water officials as rain and snow resumed, ...

This isn’t the first time that low water on the river has allowed seawater to move inland. But as climate change raises sea levels and causes more severe weather anomalies, intrusion will become ...

A push from the sea side – whether it’s sea-level rise, storm surge or high tides – moves the balance point landward. Droughts or heavy use of fresh water can also cause seawater to move inland.

At the Red Bluff Reservoir on the Pecos River, Daniel Arrant of Kingsley Water Co. has sold more than 75 million barrels of water, or more than 4 billion gallons, for oil and gas operations since ...