LOS ANGELES (AP) — Earlier this year, several environmental groups sent a petition to the federal government with a seemingly simple message: Ensure that water from the imperiled Colorado River is not ...

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Environmental groups filed a petition calling on the Trump administration to strictly enforce a regulation that requires ‘beneficial’ use of Colorado River water. The measure, which could be used to ...

The mighty Colorado River, which supplies water to cities and farms across Southern California, could again dwindle to dangerously low levels next year. That’s the finding of a new analysis published ...