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QSA: Landmark Conservation Pact Marks 20 Years of Water Security for San Diego

/in , , /by /Water News Network Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority

Twenty years ago, in October 2003, water officials from across the Southwest signed the largest water conservation-and-transfer agreement in U.S. history, the QSA, or Quantification Settlement Agreement. The agreement has provided decades of water security for San Diego County and benefits for numerous partners across the Southwest. In total, that pact supplies more than half of the water that sustains San Diego County’s 3.3 million residents and $268 billion economy.

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Colorado River Officials to Expand Troubled Water Conservation Program in 2024

/in , , /by /Colorado Newslineby Robert Davis

Colorado River officials plan to expand a conservation program next year that pays farmers and ranchers to use less water. But questions remain about some of the proposed ideas and the program’s overall efficacy.

The state initially launched the System Conservation Pilot Program in 2015 as a part of a multistate effort to conserve water from the Colorado River, which provides water for millions of residents throughout seven states as well as Mexico. The effort was designed to see if conservation efforts could stabilize the water levels in critical reservoirs along the river, like Lake Powell.

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Lake Mead’s Rising Levels This Summer a Mirage Compared to Future

/in , , /by /Nevada Public Radio by Joe Schoenmann

Remember that boat that was sticking up out of the dried-up bed of Lake Mead last summer? Recent photos have shown the water has risen to almost cover the boat again.

So hallelujah, right? Not really.

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Once-Exposed Boats in Lake Mead Covered by Water Again, but Progress is Minimal Amid Record Drought

/in , , /by /Fox 5 Vegas by Jaclyn Schultz

Boats at the bottom of Lake Mead that were exposed by dwindling lake levels are finally underwater again, but the recovery is relatively small compared to the severity of the drought.

In the summer of 2022, folks flocked to a upright boat in Lake Mead. YouTubers “Sin City Outdoors” documented the dramatic fall of lake levels as it dwindled to a historic 1,040 feet. FOX5 covered their efforts to document the numerous boats that emerged from the deep, including a historic WWII vessel.

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Will Lake Mead Water Levels Rise Again? What We Know About El Niño

/in , , /by /Newsweek by Anna Skinner

Last week, Lake Mead water levels started to even out after experiencing a steep increase for the last five months, but it isn’t expected to last for long.

After years of drought, Lake Mead, which is in Nevada and Arizona, reached drastically low levels last summer, prompting fears that a dead pool—the point where water levels are too low to flow downstream—would occur much sooner than originally thought.

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Colorado River Problems: Glen Canyon Dam, Desalination and a City That Could Run Dry

/in , , /by /8 News Nowby Greg Haas

The boldest strategies to save the Colorado River are coming from environmental groups, including a rising chorus of voices to give Lake Mead priority over Lake Powell.

 

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Rainfall and Lake Mead Water Levels, Explained

/in , /by /Las Vegas Review-Journal by Colton Lochhead

When it comes to Lake Mead’s water levels, even the biggest storms that hit Las Vegas aren’t much of a factor.

The Las Vegas Valley saw a deluge of water from a series of monsoonal storms that moved in Friday and that dumped more than an inch of rain in a matter of days. While it seems like such a torrent of water would provide a substantial boost to Lake Mead, that just isn’t the case.

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At Lake Mead, 1 Inch Equals 2 Billion Gallons

/in , , /by /8NewsNowby Greg Haas

After years living with a lingering sense of doom, residents have taken some pleasure in seeing Lake Mead fill up a little bit on the strength of a record snowpack for the Colorado River. The fact remains that it’s only a third full, but it’s a big improvement over last year. In fact, the lake is 23 feet higher today than its low point in July of 2022.

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Opinion: Are the Rains Helping Lake Mead? What the Question Says About Our Water Outlook

/in , , /by /azcentralby Joanna Allhands

You can understand our optimism. It hadn’t rained in Phoenix for four months. Other parts of the West were hot and dry. Then came the big one: Hurricane Hilary. While rainfall totals were disappointing in Phoenix, the storm did dump quite a few inches on California and Nevada. Areas near Lake Mead got pelted, leading a bunch of folks to presume that the nation’s largest water reservoir would get a decent boost from the rainfall. But that’s not how it works.

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Colorado River Basin States Stake Out Positions on the Future of Mead, Powell Reservoirs

/in , , /by /The Colorado Sunby Shannon Mullane

Colorado River Basin states don’t agree on very much when it comes to the future operations of the basin’s largest water savings banks. One thing they do agree on: The current rules aren’t working.

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