Category: News

June 1, 2026 White Paper: UPDATE: Colorado River Basin Storage Continues Slide Toward System Crash This is a white paper on the worsening water-supply outlook for the Colorado River system, where the region keeps using more water than nature puts back. It looks at what could happen to the system’s biggest reservoirs over the next…

May 2, 2026 – Maven’s Notebook Lower Basin states advance plan to deliver up to 3.2 million acre-feet through 2028 to Protect Colorado River Arizona, California, and Nevada have put forward a plan to stabilize the Colorado River through 2028, responding to record-low inflows and declining reservoir levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead. The…

April 28, 2026 – Calexico Chronicle Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz Secures EPA Administrator’s Commitment to Address New River Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz pressed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin at a congressional hearing on the FY2027 budget, securing commitments to visit the New River region and apply the same federal approach used for the Tijuana River crisis…

April 10, 2026 – California Natural Resources Agency Governor Newsom, CNRA launch state’s first new conservancy in 15 years to help accelerate Salton Sea restoration Governor Newsom just signed the creation of California’s first new conservancy in over 15 years, dedicated entirely to restoring the Salton Sea. From a major habitat expansion already drawing thousands…

January 21, 2026 – CBS News The world is entering an era of “water bankruptcy,” U.N. report warns A new United Nations report warns that the planet has entered an era of “water bankruptcy,” with human water use exceeding renewable water sources worldwide. The report from the UN University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health…

June 18, 2025 – LA Times The West’s ‘Climate Mayors’ call for federal help as Colorado River flows decline A coalition of Western city leaders, Climate Mayors, has released a new set of proposals urging stronger federal and state action on water scarcity, as climate change continues to reduce flows in the Colorado River and…

November 29, 2025 – Tortolita Alliance Water Woes XLII No Water~New Water A recent “Water Woes” post from the Tortolita Alliance looks at the widening gap between shrinking Colorado River supplies and Arizona’s push to secure “new water” through major augmentation projects. It notes that the Basin States missed a federal deadline (11/11/25) to agree…

July 7, 2025 – Yale Climate Connections A climate solution lies a mile underground. But who will reap its benefits? Beneath California’s Imperial Valley lies a vast reservoir of potential—both in clean energy and community opportunity. A new wave of interest is focused on extracting lithium from geothermal brine, a method that could revolutionize battery…

July 2, 2025 – Imperial Valley Press Audubon California report reveals a 15% overall increase per year in shorebirds at the Salton Sea A new science brief from Audubon California reports a sharp rise in shorebird populations at the Salton Sea, driven by expanding wetland habitat. Between 2016 and 2023, waterbird numbers grew by an…

May 22, 2025: Audubon.org State Inaugurates Water Flows into Salton Sea Restoration Project Representatives of conservation and community groups celebrated today at the Salton Sea as state officials began filling the 750-acre Species Conservation Habitat Project (SCH) East Pond Expansion. Together with the just-filled East Pond, California will soon have more than 2000 acres of…