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Pollution, precipitation, floods: close encounters with the elixir of life.

Your car is killing coho salmon

05.17.2022

Lena Beck

Arizona’s future water shock

04.07.2022

by Keith Schneider

A vision for more sustainable farmlands

03.01.2022

by Theo Whitcomb / High Country News

This California farming town has a toxic carcinogen in its water. Why are solutions so slow?

02.17.2022

by Claudia Boyd-Barrett, California Health Report

A shellfish company gets into the weeds

01.26.2022

by Sarah Sax / High Country News

Water scarcity is about to get a lot worse. Irrigated agriculture doesn’t have a plan.

01.13.2022

by Jessica Fu

Indigenous feminism flows through the fight for water rights on the Rio Grande

01.13.2022

by Christine Trudeau / High County News + Kalen Goodluck

Corporations are consolidating water and land rights in the West

01.04.2022

by Eli Francovich

Historically excluded from Colorado River policy, tribes want a say in how the dwindling resource is used. Access to clean water is a start.

12.10.2021

by Michael Elizabeth Sakas

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