Topic: water rights

The Los Angeles Aqueduct winds through the hills alongside a freeway in Sylmar, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

LA’s Native people know this story

Petala Ironcloud
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
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
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