For generations, the presence of Hoover Dam and its massive power plant routinely translated into cheap electricity for cities, farmers, irrig…
Tony Davis
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Tony graduated from Northwestern University and started at the Star in 1997. He has mostly covered environmental stories since 2005, focusing on water supplies, climate change, the Rosemont Mine and the endangered jaguar.
A mediator might be needed to break a long deadlock in how to divvy up water from the Colorado River among states, a commission says.
The goal is to prevent Lake Powell from falling so low that Glen Canyon Dam would no longer be able to generate electricity.
The Bureau of Reclamation says it plans to substantially increase Colorado River water releases from reservoirs upstream of Lake Powell and to reduce releases from Powell to Lake Mead. The purpose of these actinos will be to keep Powell from falling below the level at which turbines at the adjoining Glen Canyon Dam can generate electricity.
Everywhere you look for almost a mile along the Santa Cruz River on Tucson's south side, you see Gooding's willows. Short ones, tall ones, fat…
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, pressed in the Tucson area Monday to spell out how he’ll handle the Colorado River's water crisis, said “nobody will be happy."
Tucson Water violated state requirements for two straight years, limiting how much of its drinking water is lost or not properly accounted for…
Will Arizona get more serious about water conservation, or return to depending on groundwater pumping? Experts weigh in.
Out in the Avra Valley, about 30 miles northwest of Tucson, a wide swath of water pours down a fenced-off canal about 80 feet wide.