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 new 900-mile-long oil pipeline is weeks away from bringing two oil fields to life in Uganda, where concerns about the impacts on Africa’s largest lakes abound. ● Hundreds of massive sinkholes have ...

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 ...

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 ...