http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.3/conservative-farmers-agree-to-tax-those-who-deplete-groundwater Amid drought and climate change in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, farmers vote for a new approach to rein in their overpumping of groundwater. No publisher Cally Carswell irrigation farm climate change San Luis Valley taxes aquifer groundwater drought agriculture 2013-04-23T16:32:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.3/drought-forces-a-new-era-of-agricultural-water-conservation Whether converting open ditches into pipelines or fallowing fields, farmers and ranchers in the West are being forced to change the ways they use water as climate-induced drought tightens its grip. No publisher Paul Larmer irrigation San Luis Valley agriculture groundwater 2013-02-19T15:16:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/coping-with-two-headed-fish-and-other-effects-of-selenium Researchers try to determine if unhealthy amounts of selenium are entering Western soil and water due to energy development. No publisher Danielle Venton Kesterson reservoir oil and gas development irrigation wildlife deformities groundwater pollution riparian soil disturbance fish JoAnn Holloway Selenium J.R. Simplot BLM U.S. Geological Survey water pollution Muddy Creek, Wyoming wildlife birds reptiles 2012-05-30T17:41:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.7/balancing-fish-and-farms-on-a-washington-estuary A restoration effort at Fisher Slough in Washington's Skagit River Delta has encouraged cooperation between farmers and environmentalists - and might even help endangered chinook salmon. No publisher Eric Wagner salmon fry irrigation smoltification Fisher Slough estuary ecology collaborative groups Skagit River Delta endangered fish Salish fishermen Skagit River Systems Cooperative smolts Skagit Chinook Recovery Plan chinook salmon agriculture Skagit Valley farmers 2012-05-09T14:34:37Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/a-colorado-newspaperman-fights-for-his-valleys-water Bob Rawlings, publisher of the Pueblo Chieftain, has battled for decades to bring water to southeastern Colorado and, once it's there, to keep it no matter what. No publisher Matt Jenkins irrigation Colorado water politics farmers Bob Rawlings water supply Super Ditch water rights Pueblo Chieftain Colorado history water diversions Fryingpan-Arkansas project 2012-03-26T14:44:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15779 As the rapidly growing city of Las Vegas, Nev., schemes to find more water, it reminds those of us who live outside big cities that we also need to rethink the way we use water No publisher Paul Larmer Communities Communities in Transition Dams And Water Supply Projects Water irrigation agriculture rainfall drought Colorado River Compact Colorado River Basin growth farming water supply projects agribusiness water conservation 2012-03-05T22:36:33Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16435 In Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great Plains, William Ashworth examines the effects of groundwater dependency in a dry land No publisher Matt Jenkins Agriculture Irrigation Groundwater Ogallala Blue William Ashworth Ogallala Aquifer groundwater farming agriculture irrigation grain farmers Great Plains High Plains Jon Opie wells wheat drought 2011-11-21T22:36:46Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16417 Farmers and conservationists have reached a settlement that allows water to flow in California’s San Joaquin River, home to the Friant Dam No publisher Allison Gerfin Dams and Water Supply Projects Friant Dam San Joaquin River salmon irrigation agriculture Central Valley farmers Judge Lawrence Karlton Jared Huffman conservation settlements consensus Natural Resources Defense Council Ron Jacobsma Friant Water Authority court cases envir 2011-11-21T22:30:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16378 In the desert Southwest of 2030 Big Daddy Drought runs the show, California claims all the water, and a water tick named Lolo ekes out a rugged living removing tamarisk. No publisher Paolo Bacigalupi The 1922 Colorado River Compact irrigation sci-fi rights imagined futures Science Tamarisk Hunter tamarisk California water law water Science fiction Paolo Bacigalupi Weather future scenarios Climate Change Dams and Water Supply Projects drought fiction short stories SF 2011-11-12T21:30:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/wrestling-with-a-destiny-of-dryness A Utah writer struggles with his family’s predilection to always end up living in very arid places. No publisher John Bennion Benmore, Utah irrigation desert Mormon history Costa Rica John Bennion family history Utah farmers alfalfa growing precipitation Welsh immigrants 2011-11-11T15:04:42Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16233 Farmers, environmentalists, fishermen and tribes are talking with PacifiCorp officials about the possible removal of four dams on the Klamath River No publisher Brett Wilkison Dams and Water Supply Projects Salmon Klamath River fish kills irrigation fishing industry fishing restrictions Klamath River chinook PacifiCorp dam removal hydropower dams fish ladders Trout Unlimited Chuck Bonham Dave Kvamme dam license renewal Bureau of Reclamation f 2011-11-07T18:28:57Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16210 In Washington, tribes have been shut out of a plan for new Columbia River dams that are being touted as good for salmon as well as farmers No publisher Matt Jenkins Fish Salmon Native Americans Dams and Water Supply Projects Columbia River dams water projects reservoirs irrigation salmon endangered fish Christine Gregoire Washington Legislature Gerry O’Keefe Washington Department of Ecology Yakama Nation Columbia Basin Project Endangered Species Act Clark Kagele 2011-10-27T21:51:47Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.13/re-watering-nevadas-dying-walker-lake Walker Lake in northwestern Nevada has been dying for years, but locals and government officials are determined to restore it. No publisher Gordon Gregory irrigation Walker River terminal lakes lake restoration Walker Lake tui chub drought Lahontan cutthroat trout National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 2011-08-15T19:36:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.10/spring-cleaning-the-acequia-a-photo-essay The annual spring cleaning of its irrigation ditch brings tiny El Cerrito, N.M., together to work and celebrate. No publisher Sierra Crane-Murdoch and Sharon Stewart ditch cleaning Hispanic communities rural life Northern New Mexico irrigation small towns acequias Sharon Stewart photographs 2011-06-17T14:46:43Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.8/the-year-in-water A La Niña year brings a good snowpack to some Western states and little or nothing to others. No publisher Cally Carswell Western water supply La Niña streamflow Western snowpack irrigation weather precipitation 2011-05-13T16:46:40Z Infographic