Water master Robert Rios walks down to irrigation gates near the border wall in El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1 in July 2023. The "ditch riders" frequently find dead migrants trapped ...

Beside a canal that runs through farmland, rushing water roared through an irrigation gate and flowed down a concrete culvert toward a wetland fringed with cottonwoods and willows. For decades, so ...

RENO — Water conflicts are nothing new to the arid West, where myriad users long have vied for their share of the precious resource from California's Central Valley to the Colorado and Missouri rivers ...

COLEHARBOR, North Dakota — Paul Anderson has dubbed his new irrigation project "Double-0 Seven" -- buts it's not because it’s a secret. In fact, he’d like more people to know that the new irrigation ...

Editor's note: This story ran in Yakima Magazine in March 2019. We are rerunning it in lieu of the "It Happened Here" history column this week because of heightened interest in the canal in light of ...

(Update: Repairs done, power restored but fire-related power outage cut service to some) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Repairs are complete and water service is being restored to most of the 1,800 affected ...

Editor’s note: This story contains reporting that some readers may find disturbing. Robert Rios knows the Rio Grande as few do: its vagary and speed, its awesome power to give life and take it away.

Conservationist Israel Mateo Sánchez Leyva uses a net while collecting fish during a survey in the Colorado River Delta's estuary in Mexico. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Beside a canal that runs ...

This story was republished on Jan. 5, 2024, to make it free for all readers. Editor’s note: This story contains reporting that some readers may find disturbing. Robert Rios knows the Rio Grande as few ...