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Hualapai Chairman Damon Clarke, right, urged the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to pass a bill that would expand his tribe’s water access and improve infrastructure, badly needed help as the drought causes wells to fail. (Photo by Morgan Fischer/Cronkite News)
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Hualapai leader urges Senate to OK water plan

By Cronkite NewsJul 21, 2022
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Las Vegas water intake now visible at Lake Mead

By The Associated PressMay 2, 2022
FILE - In this March 5, 2020, file photo, Hunter Maltz, a fish technician for the Yurok tribe, pushes a jet boat into the low water of the Klamath River at the confluence of the Klamath River and Blue Creek as Keith Parker, as a Yurok tribal fisheries biologist, watches near Klamath, Calif., in Humboldt County. One of the worst droughts in memory in the massive agricultural region straddling the California-Oregon border could mean steep cuts to irrigation water for hundreds of farmers this summer to sustain endangered fish species critical to local tribes. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water allocations in the federally owned Klamath Project, is expected to announce this week how the season's water will be divvied up after delaying the decision a month. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)
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Farms, fish on dry California-Oregon border see scant water

By The Associated PressApr 13, 2022
In this July 31, 2021 photo, a boat cruises along Lake Powell near Page, Ariz. The elevation of Lake Powell fell below 3,525 feet (1,075 meters), a record low that surpasses a critical threshold at which officials have long warned signals their ability to general hydropower is in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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US to boost water supplies hit by climate change

By Susan Montoya Bryan, AP WriterApr 6, 2022
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe got federal funding for a pipeline that will bring water for irrigation to their lands near Tucson, freeing up much-needed drinking water for tribal members’ homes. Here, a worker reconnects an irrigation line in a 2017 photo from Visalia, Calif. (File photo by Jackie Wang/News21)
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Tribal officials call for ‘critical’ water infrastructure

By Cronkite NewsFeb 11, 2022
The calcium markings on the rock formations in Lake Mead, a Colorado River reservoir, show the impact of a 17-year drought on water levels. If the level drops below 1,025 feet, a state report says Arizona will lose access to 480,000 acre-feet of water from the Colorado River, or enough water for about a million family households for one year.
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Phoenix joins tribes, vows to prop up key reservoir

By Carina DominguezJan 20, 2022
Raynelle Hoskie attaches a hose to a water pump to fill tanks in her truck outside a tribal office on the Navajo reservation in Tuba City, Ariz., on April 20, 2020. Hoskie is hauling water back to her home where she lives with her extended family. The reservation has some of the highest rates of coronavirus in the country. If Navajos are susceptible to the virus' spread in part because they are so closely knit, that's also how many believe they will beat it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Tribes lacking water see hope with massive bill

By The Associated PressDec 23, 2021
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When states face water cuts

By The Associated PressAug 17, 2021