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  • Farmers and ranchers say city is stealing water

    In New Mexico, Alamogordo’s plan to build a desalinization plant and tap the Tularosa Basin aquifer has area ranchers and farmers worried

    by Hilary Watts, Apr 18, 2005

  • Skiing, or wheeling and dealing?

    Ski resorts become a tool for real estate speculation and development across the West.

    by Mark Matthews, Apr 18, 2005

  • A chemical cocktail pollutes Western water

    A recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey finds traces of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and personal care products in Colorado’s streams and groundwater

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Apr 18, 2005

  • The best thing since dams: pouring water underground

    In Common Waters, Diverging Streams William Blomquist, Edella Schlager, and Tanya Heikkila argue on behalf of "conjunctive management" – coordinating the use of surface water with underground aquifers

    by Matt Jenkins, Apr 04, 2005

  • 'Safe dose' of rocket fuel now larger

    Following a controversial study, the Environmental Protection Agency decides to raise the drinking water standards for perchlorate to a dosage environmentalists say is dangerously high

    by J.M. McCord, Mar 21, 2005

  • A leak-proof fuel tank? No such thing

    Diesel fuel – leaking from a massive railroad refueling depot –slips into a major drinking water aquifer on the Idaho-Washington border.

    by Kevin Taylor, Mar 21, 2005

  • The best-laid plans

    It’s high time Arizona realized it’s a desert, and has to share the Colorado River with six other dry Western states

    by Greg Hanscom, Mar 21, 2005

  • Arizona returns to the desert

    Rampant growth in the Phoenix area and a severe drought on the Colorado River challenge Arizona's water sustainability.

    by Matt Jenkins, Mar 21, 2005

  • Wastewater goes unwatched

    Wyoming’s runaway energy boom is taking on toll on the state’s land, especially when the industry’s salty wastewater spills or leaches into the ground

    by J.M. McCord, Mar 07, 2005

  • Death of the San Pedro: Not if, but when

    Groundwater pumping in the Sierra Vista area may be already reducing water flow to the San Pedro River

    by Tony Davis, Aug 30, 2004
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