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Blake McCord

With the cost of uranium skyrocketing, a once-dormant industry might burst back to life in Utah’s backyard

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

News|December 5, 2023

Carletta Tilousi, a member of the Havasupai Tribe, was born and raised in a village at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The Havasupai have lived there since time immemorial. When she was just 14,... Read Original Story

Raymond Chee

Navajo nonprofit taps into kinship to grow Native American-owned businesses

Source: KNAU

News|November 27, 2023

Of the millions of businesses in the U.S., just 1 percent are owned by Native Americans. A nonprofit of the Navajo Nation has started a unique business incubator to foster economic development... Read Original Story

Climate report shows drought impacts in Southwest

Source: Indian Country Today

News|November 25, 2023

The arid West is getting drier, and shrinking water supplies pose a boatload of risks to human health throughout the region. Those findings come from a new federal report on climate change that also... Read Original Story

Will another snowy winter boost the Colorado River? It hasn't happened in this century

Source: Arizona Republic

News|November 17, 2023

Six months after three southwestern states struck a deal to keep more Colorado River water behind drought-shrunken Hoover Dam, those states face the first test of whether it’s enough to keep the... Read Original Story

A Hopi farmer is using ancient practices to grow crops in Arizona — with no irrigation

Source: Fronteras Desk

News|November 15, 2023

In the West, ongoing drought and drier future are forcing us all to think about how we use water differently. One farmer up in northern Arizona is using ancient practices to grow food. The Show... Read Original Story

Aaron Paul

Grand Canyon flood experiment helped restore beaches, delighting Colorado River runners

Source: Arizona Republic

News|November 10, 2023

Grand Canyon river runners enjoyed the best camping beaches in years this season, and a riverside vegetation restoration project got a boost, both the result of the first planned springtime flood on... Read Original Story

Blake McCord

A Tangle of Rules to Protect America’s Water Is Falling Short

Source: New York

News|November 2, 2023

AMERICA’S STEWARDSHIP of one of its most precious resources, groundwater, relies on a patchwork of state and local rules so lax and outdated that in many places oversight is all but nonexistent, a... Read Original Story

Amy S. Martin

A generational battle: How a tribe’s concern over uranium mining on ancestral homelands brought Biden to AZ

Source: Arizona Public Media

News|October 27, 2023

For people who visit or call Grand Canyon National Park home, the water issues mainly come around moving water up to the rim where the homes, hotels, and other businesses sit. But, head downstream to... Read Original Story

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