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Topic: water rights

Toroweap Overlook above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. (Photo courtesy of Brian Richter)

The Colorado River is becoming a trickle

Matthew Rozsa
Irrigation canal near Orange River in arid region of Northern Cape, South Africa (Getty Images/geoffsp)

Groundwater depletion can be reversed

Matthew Rozsa
Jabari Omari, a Jackson city employee, talks with a resident while helping hand out cases of bottled water at a Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribution site on August 31, 2022 in Jackson, Mississippi. (Brad Vest/Getty Images)

Jackson's unending water crisis

Lylla Younes - Grist
BITTER SPRINGS, ARIZONA - JANUARY 1: A rainbow is seen above homes in the Navajo Nation, on January 1, 2023 in Bitter Springs, Arizona. Reports say that nearly 40% of Navajo Nation is living without running water. Despite living near the Colorado River the Navajo Nation was left out of talks almost a hundred years ago when rule makers were drawing up the Colorado River Compact.(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Navajo Nation's water situation is vague

Lyric Aquino - Grist
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Water levels are at a historic low at Lake Powell on April 5, 2022 in Page, Arizona. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The water brokers

Jake Bittle - Grist
Colorful sunset overlooking the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon (Dean Fikar/Getty Images)

Colorado River fight pits CA against AZ

Jake Bittle - Grist
A dried out bank of a nearly water empty dam is pictured on a farm in Piket Bo-berg, Piketberg, north of Cape Town, on March 7, 2018 as a result of a three-year-long drought. (WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)

Indigenous leaders negotiate on water

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Locks are seen on the old Navajo Bridge over the Colorado River at Marble Canyon, Arizona, on August 31, 2022. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

SCOTUS hears Navajo water rights case

Jake Bittle, Maria Parazo Rose - Grist
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Water levels are at a historic low at Lake Powell on April 5, 2022 in Page, Arizona. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The plan to save the Colorado River

Jake Bittle - Grist
Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves delivers a televised address at the Governor's Mansion June 30, 2020 in Jackson, Mississippi. (Rogelio V. Solis-Pool/Getty Images)

GOP blamed for Mississippi water crisis

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP/Paul Sancya)

A clean water revolution in the U.S.

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
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