For years, members of the Walker River Paiute Tribe who depend on well water have been plagued by water scarcity, brought on by a lack of infrastructure and funding. Between aging pipes, pollutants ...
A little-known fact about the Colorado River is that American Indian tribes own rights to about a quarter of the river. In reality, for most tribes, they are only “paper rights” not amounting to water ...
Tribes across the West have worked with states to protect the Colorado River and conserve enough water to raise elevations in ...
As I’ve followed the long-running negotiations over the Colorado River the last couple of years, very little progress has been made in transforming the century-old system of managing the river’s ...
This investigation is a collaboration betweenHigh Country News and ProPublica. At night, the lights of Lake Havasu City’s hotels, boat launches and neighborhoods reflect off the reservoir that gave ...
The “Tule River Tribe Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025,” introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-California), advanced from the Committee on Indian Affairs and will be ...