The Rundown *The Federal Water Tap will be on summer break starting next week. The weekly briefing will resume on August 17.* And lastly, a USDA report outlines changes in manure management in the U.S ...

In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once he was elected, ...

By Alex Hager/KJZZ and Mark Olalde/ProPublica; Photography by Sharon Chischilly for ProPublica; June 29, 2026 This story was ...

Gamblers now have a chance to put their money where the water isn’t. Kalshi, an online prediction market, is offering wagers on Lake Mead’s water level at the end of June. Prediction markets like ...

Hoover Dam will see big reductions in hydropower capacity when Lake Mead drops below elevation 1,035 feet, which is 15 feet away. There will be repercussions for power customers and the electric grid ...

One of the longest-duration pumped storage hydropower projects in the country is proposed for Navajo Nation land in the Four Corners region. The project received a $7.1 million Department of Energy ...

India’s response to water challenges in the next months and years will affect generations. Delhi is thirsty, even parched. As the 3rd largest population center in the world, its 25 million people need ...

More than two years after its expiration, the Farm Bill remains stalled. Cuts and cancellations to federal conservation programs have disrupted funding for projects aimed at improving rural water ...

A 50-year-old federal rule, intended to mitigate disasters, is having the opposite effect. As a result of this rule, land planners routinely abandon projects meant to improve water quality and reduce ...

The “Flamingo Revolution,” a mass protest against a planned hotel resort in the Vjosë River Delta, a protected biosphere, has taken Tirana, Albania by storm. ● Half of the world’s children are ...

Wild rice, North America’s only native grain, bears incalculable significance for tribes across the Great Lakes basin. Pollution, development, broken treaties, and climate change have contributed to ...