A Long-Dry California River Gets, and Gives, New Life
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Water is flowing in the Lower Owens River nearly 100 years after Los Angeles diverted the river into an aqueduct and sent it 200 miles south.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 11--TRACY -- An environmental group is appealing Tracy's recently approved permit to release more wastewater into the Old River, claiming it will only add to pollution in the fragile San Joaquin Delta ecosystem.
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Southern Californians, fond of their private pools, golf courses, garden sprinklers and the ubiquitous car wash, are being urged to reform their water-guzzling ways after the region's driest year on record.
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Las Vegas is having a hard time these days reconciling its big dreams with an unforgiving new fact of life: It is running out of water.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 19--A new network of high-tech weather sensors is making the streams, tributaries and dams of the American River the country's most closely monitored water system.
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A man-made flood is roaring through the Grand Canyon in a bold experiment to restore the sandbanks of the Colorado river and to save fish and plants that have been disappearing over the past 40 years.
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Scientists find water on a distant planet. Someday, maybe they'll find life
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 19--FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, government officials, farmers and environmentalists have been trying to find a way of prevent dangerous agricultural runoff from polluting the Delta and other state waterways.
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It's taking on water, and debt.
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For the first time in seven years, virtually every river in Arizona is doing what rivers are supposed to do: flow with water.
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By Yomi S. Wronge, MEDIA NEWS  The state's second-longest river will be brought back to life after 60 years of being drained dry for Central Valley agriculture, under a settlement filed Wednesday in federal court.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 11--BLYTHE, Calif. -- In 1877, Thomas Blythe had a dream of making the desert bloom and began flooding the desert with water from the Colorado River for the sake of agriculture.
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Researchers say that Lake Mead, the reservoir just outside Las Vegas that was created by the Hoover Dam, could be bone dry within 15 years.
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Years of drought along the Colorado River have created a harsh reality for the booming Las Vegas Valley: The metropolitan area will not be able to grow in the decades ahead without new sources of potable water.
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By Terence Chea, Associated Press Writer  SAN FRANCISCO  - California experienced one of its driest Januarys on record, a worrisome development for a state that relies on winter rain and snow for its water.
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Environmentalists have complained for years that the Colorado River below a manmade dam was washing away natural sediment in the Grand Canyon, wiping away beaches and native fish and plants.
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Clean-up continues with waters still rising in some areas.