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Water/Drought

People walk inside UN headquarters, ahead the UN Water Conference, on March 22, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images

UN Water Conference Highlights a Stubborn Shortage of Global Action

By Delaney Dryfoos

A stock pond south of Dallas dries up due to drought conditions. Across Texas, drought is taxing reservoirs and rivers and groundwater aquifers are being pumped faster than they can recharge. Currently, more than half the state is in drought. Credit: Paul Buck/AFP via Getty Images.

Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth

By Martha Pskowski

Two patches of land sit in a dried up lake bed in 2022. These were once islands in Laguna de Aculeoa, a popular freshwater lake for fishing, boating and swimming, just an hour from Santiago, Chile. The lake dried up completely in 2018 due to the ongoing megadrought.

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

Story and Photos by James Whitlow Delano

In Mammoth Lakes, California, snow covers roofs next to snowbanks in March piled up from new and past storms in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the wake of an atmospheric river event. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

California Snowpack May Hold Record Amount of Water, With Significant Flooding Possible

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Australian water scarcity activist Mina Guli completes her 200th marathon outside UN headquarters, ahead the UN Water Conference, on March 22, 2023, in New York City. Credit: Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images.

At the UN Water Conference, Running to Keep Up with an Ambitious 2030 Goal for Universal Water Rights

By Delaney Dryfoos

An aerial view of landslide damage in La Cañada Flintridge, California on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

By Bob Berwyn

Eric Balken, executive director of Glen Canyon Institute, walks along a sandbar once submerged by Lake Powell. As the reservoir drops to record lows, areas that were underwater for decades have begun to emerge. Credit: Alex Hager

Lake Powell Drops to a New Record Low as Feds Scramble to Prop it Up

By Alex Hager, KUNC

A view of the Colorado River from the Navajo Bridge in Marble Canyon, Arizona on Aug. 31, 2022. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

States Have Proposals, But No Consensus, On Curbing Water Shortages In Colorado River Basin

By Wyatt Myskow

Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

More than two thirds of the Colorado River begins as snow in Colorado. However, warm temperatures and dry soil are steadily reducing the amount of snowmelt that makes its way into the river, which supplies 40 million people across the Southwest. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

This Winter’s Rain and Snow Won’t be Enough to Pull the West Out of Drought

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Construction continues in October 2022 on a new section of homes at Festival Ranch in Buckeye, Arizona. Future development in the city, 35 miles west of Phoenix, could be imperiled by a lack of water. The flight for aerial photography was provided by LightHawk. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images.

Arizona’s New Governor Takes on Water Conservation and Promises to Revise the State’s Groundwater Management Act

By Wyatt Myskow

Cal Fire firefighters battle the Oak Fire on July 23, 2022 near Mariposa, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Families come to the Ammusait General Hospital malnutrition ward to tend to their sick children and family members. Staff is limited so family members become caretakers at the hospital. Credit: Larry C. Price

A Hospital Ward for Starving Children in Kenya Has Seen a Surge in Cases This Year

By Georgina Gustin

A boat dock sits on dry ground far from the water at Lake Mendocino on April 22, 2021 in Ukiah, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

John Entsminger, who runs the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said states will probably come up with an "imperfect alternative" to last until 2026, when current rules for managing the Colorado River expire and states are expected to draw up a "longer-term, more durable solution." Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

‘It Is Going to Take Real Cuts to Everyone’: Leaders Meet to Decide the Future of the Colorado River

By Alex Hager, KUNC

The body of a camel that died the day before of starvation lies near Marsabit, Kenya. Credit: Larry C. Price

In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up

By Georgina Gustin

A fracking site is situated on the outskirts of town in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

Jayden Mitchell, youth volunteer with the Santa Clara Pueblo forestry department, plants conifer seedlings near a pond in the Santa Clara canyon floodplain. Credit: Sara Van Note

Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico’s Record-Breaking Wildfires

By Sara Van Note

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