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  • Multimedia Urban Creeks 2.0

    Urban Creeks 2.0

    In San Francisco's East Bay, activists try to reconnect impoverished communities with their local waterways.

  • Feature Rebooting Urban Watersheds

    Rebooting Urban Watersheds

    In California, grassroots activists work to restore damaged East Bay waterways and the impoverished communities that surround them.

  • Writers on the Range When neighbors become cops

    When neighbors become cops

    As mandatory water conservation becomes more common in the West, many communities are asking residents to report water-wasters.

  • Feature Salmon Salvation

    Salmon Salvation

    Obama’s new political order, backed by the legal acumen of Judge James Redden, may help the Northwest’s salmon survive and end the era of the Lower Snake River dams.

  • Writers on the Range Must our water always flow uphill toward money?

    Must our water always flow uphill toward money?

    Bottled water is a silly idea anyway, but Nestle’s plans to bottle spring water from the high desert of Chaffee County, Colo., are beyond absurd.

  • Writers on the Range Dwindling supplies inflame water wars

    Dwindling supplies inflame water wars

    Arguing about water is a beloved Western pastime, but Coloradoans may soon find themselves seriously fighting over what’s left in the Colorado River.

  • Editor's Note Welcome to the era of scarcity

    Welcome to the era of scarcity

    Arguing about water is a beloved Western pastime, but as the snowpack shrinks, Coloradoans are going to find themselves seriously fighting over what’s left in the Colorado River.

  • Feature How low will it go?

    How low will it go?

    If Eric Kuhn is right about the Colorado River, then the state faces a dry and difficult future of fighting for water.

  • Editor's Note

    Woman on the water

    Heather Wylie talks about taking on the feds and floating the L.A. River.

  • Feature Non-navigable River Blues

    Non-navigable River Blues

    An obscure legal ruling muddied U.S. water-protection standards, leaving Western intermittent streams and rivers unprotected.

  • Feature

    Desperate measures

    Over the years, Westerners have come up with a lot of wacky schemes to get more water.

  • Feature

    Ultimate solution?

    Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

  • Editor's Note

    Peak economy

    Westerners shouldn’t panic about the recent economic meltdown; our region has always cycled from boom to bust and back again.

  • News

    Liquid assets

    California is enthusiastic about creating “water banks” to help the state’s cities weather future droughts.

  • News

    A good idea – if you can get away with it

    Rainwater harvesting is against the law in many Western states, but folks in Utah, Colorado and Washington want to change that.

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