Distributions made under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the distribution of $51 million to 30 new environmental water resource projects this month.…
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DOI Moves Colorado River Protection Planning Forward
The department begins incorporating summary reports into future operating guidelines. The Department of the Interior has taken proposed guidelines for Colorado River water conservation into the next stages…
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Interior Allocates Funding to Expand Western Water Storage
Secretary Haaland announces the investment of $152 million which is expected to add 1.7 million acre-feet of storage capacity. The Department of the Interior (DOI) distributed $152 million…
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Interior Announces Desalination Facility Funding
The investment will advance studies and pilots for advanced water delivery and purification. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in…
Read MoreInterior Official Visits Drought Resilience Projects
The Assistant Secretary for Water and Science visits several sites. The Department of the Interior is organizing a number of drought resiliency projects through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,…
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Interior Invests in 36 Drought Resiliency Projects
Selected projects intended to increase stores of clean drinking water. The Department of the Interior (DOI) has announced that 36 drought resiliency projects will receive $84.7 million through…
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Hoover Dam Reservoir at Record Low
Extreme drought conditions exist in Southwest U.S. Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the Hoover Dam, has sunk to its lowest level ever, underscoring the gravity of the…
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Interior Creates Drought Prevention Working Group
Joint effort between the Interior and Agriculture departments to address ongoing drought in the West. The Department of the Interior announced on Wednesday that it had created an…
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Drought Building in Western States
Little relief in sight for multiyear drought. Weather patterns in parts of the western United States are bringing a crushing drought that will affect more than 70 million…
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Western U.S. Water Supply Beginning to Run Low
Water level projections are not encouraging. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was formed in 1902 in order to address the issue of water supply in the Western United…
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