Drought Emergency on the Colorado River

Tensions intensify as immediate & long-term solutions are sought The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) last month issued a call to the public for assistance in developing future long-term operating provisions on the Colorado River. This announcement came within...

TOP PRIORITY: ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

The very significant federal presence in the West presents unique challenges that producers may not face in other parts of the United States, particularly with respect to the reach of the ESA. In the West, once certain water supplies – one of the few certainties in...

TOP PRIORITY: CLEAN WATER ACT

Today, more than a third of the 3.6 million stream miles in this country are designated as “impaired” under the federal CWA. Under the ESA, 28 types of salmon have been listed and none have recovered. Though listing of waters as impaired and species as endangered...

TOP PRIORITY: REGULATIONS

At the top of the list of the challenges confronting Western family farmers and ranchers is the daunting number of federal regulatory policy initiatives they face. These types of federal water resource policies and regulatory practices could potentially undermine the...

TOP PRIORITY: WATER RIGHTS

The Alliance in 2015 released its water rights paper, intended to demonstrate the importance of the existing system, show that it actually works, and try to rebut growing arguments by some of our critics that the system should be scrapped and replaced with something...