Glen Canyon Institute

Much ado has been made in recent headlines about growing scarcity on the Colorado River. Water supply, as reflected by what’s left in storage in the basin’s big reservoirs, has dropped Read More »

Much of Nevada’s livelihood comes from gambling, but some things are too precious and too costly to gamble on. Unfortunately, gambling is exactly what the state’s largest provider of that most precious desert resource – water – is doing. Read More »

A legislative task force wants to siphon 15 percent of revenue growth from state sales tax to finance the $1.5 billion Lake Powell Pipeline. That is unacceptable because it would create a funding drought for other essential state programs, from higher education to Medicaid. Read More »

Southern Californians are used to turning on the tap, or the sprinklers, and getting the water they want. Their ability to do so depends, in large part, on the Colorado River and the reservoir it feeds, Lake Mead. Read More »

Environmentalist David Brower was once asked, “Why are you conservationists always against things?” He replied, “If you are against something, you are always for something. If you are against a dam, you are for a river.” Read More »

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration announced a federal ban Monday on new mining claims affecting 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, an area known to be rich in high-grade uranium ore reserves. Read More »

SALT LAKE CITY — Ten conservation groups from four Western states are lining up in opposition to a plan that would take water from the Green River before it reaches Flaming Gorge and pipe it to the front range of Colorado. Read More »

The Salt Lake Tribune calls out the Water Issues Task Force for pushing a 15% earmark on new sales tax growth to fund the Lake Powell Pipeline. "In the face of this reality, what Utah’s hypocritical and shortsighted legislators propose is to bank on the Colorado for the future of southern Utah, which is like banking on Greece for financial prosperity." Read More »

PHOENIX — A University of Arizona study says megadroughts — multi-decade periods of drought — may be a recurring feature of the Southwest's Climate. The study to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters revealed a previously unknown decades-long drought period in the second century for the region and suggests the area may have experienced more extended periods of aridity than originally believed. Read More »

Researchers with the University of Arizona (UA’s) have discovered evidence of a formerly unknown, decades-long drought that occurred in the southwestern United States in the second century, the school announced in a November 3 press release. Read More »