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You are invited to spend a day without water. Think about it... no drinking from the tap, no washing your hands, no flushing the toilet. Ready? October…
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Des Moines, Iowa, in the heart of the grain belt, gets about three feet of precipitation every year. But the real heart of American agriculture is…
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Waterways around the region are protected from development and pollution by a number of programs. Some are in the federal Wild and Scenic Rivers system.…
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In the west, water is a constant battleground; there's great demand and a lot less supply.Drawing on her childhood grwing up in the arid west, Becca…
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Shasta Big Springs Ranch in Siskiyou County is one of the few places in the country where salmon spawned in a stream right next to cows. So there was…
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An irrigation ditch may be a pleasant place for a streamside stroll, but there are issues in having the water run out in the open. Evaporation and leakage…
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It just seems like magic. A machine uses wood chips and a few other ingredients to pull moisture out of the air, to produce water. 30 gallons a day, in…
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The recent drought years have often left drivers on Interstate Five wondering what happened to Shasta Lake. The bridges that cross arms of the lake are…
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Drought is a regular companion to life in the west. Even when there's no drought, there's not much rain... Klamath Falls gets 14 inches in a "normal"…
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California suffered through years of drought, and implemented restrictions on water use. Then the rains came--a year ago--and the restrictions came off.…
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The recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland was not just for national leaders and rich people. Plenty of scientists got to hang out there as…
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The list of dams now removed from the Rogue River and its tributaries is getting longer: Gold Ray, Savage Rapids, Bear Creek, Wimer... and that's just a…
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You've heard of POTUS and SCOTUS, now meet WOTUS. That acronym means Waters Of The United States, and the Obama Administration made a rule identifying…
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A lot of rain and snow fell over the winter. But that does not mean a year without water controversy in the Klamath Basin. The Klamath Tribes recently…