rivers

Lower Basin Colorado River consumptive use is lowest in 40 years

Average Colorado River consumptive use for the Lower Basin states has been steadily decreasing over the past decade. The Bureau…

7 months ago

Lethal cyanobacteria are creeping into rivers—no one knows exactly why

Researcher Hannah Bonner conducts a visual monitoring survey of benthic cyanobacteria in North Creek, a tributary of Utah’s Virgin River.…

8 months ago

40 million people share the shrinking Colorado River.

Here’s how that water gets divvied up. The Colorado River passes through Mesa County, March 7, 2024, near Loma. The…

8 months ago

Tijuana River: ‘on the level of the Flint water crisis,’ warn advocates

Photo: The Tijuana River sewage crisis has forced some beaches to close for the past 800 days and counting. For…

9 months ago

Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

Ashley Smith and Peter Hammond by the River Windrush in Oxfordshire. Photograph: Sam Frost/The Guardian A tide of effluent, broken…

9 months ago