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  • Metering Utah's secondary water may help overuse in drought

    Cities in Utah are installing secondary water meters to track how much water residents are using on their lawns. This allows residents to see their usage, compare it to the recommended amount, and cut back when necessary.

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  • Farmers are trying new water-saving tech in Utah's drought

    Farmers are upgrading to automated irrigation systems with 50-50 matching grants from the Utah Department of Agriculture. The systems save farmers’ time and water.

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  • Drinking water in short supply? There's a solution in the air.

    As governments and residents wrestle with drought and dwindling water supplies, atmospheric water generation systems are popping up throughout the United States as a way to convert air into water. One product, called WeDew, collects water droplets that are formed when warm air meets a cool surface. That water can be used to water plants or create safe drinking water. These air-to-water generators are being used in places from California to Uganda.

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  • I Drank Recycled Sewage To Get A Taste Of SoCal's Water Future

    The Groundwater Replenishment System recycles over 100 million gallons of wastewater a day. Once processed, this water, which is flushed down toilets and drains, is safe to drink and can help address California’s water shortage.

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  • Fire Returned: Neighbors helping neighbors

    To help reduce hazardous fuels that make forestland more susceptible to dangerous megafires, a group of volunteers in Butte County, Calif. helps private landowners manage prescribed burns on their properties. Since launching in 2021, the Butte County Prescribed Burn Association has conducted 11 burns on roughly 58 acres of property, drawing on land management techniques that have been in use in Indigenous communities for thousands of years.

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  • Drought and inflation have come for farmers and ranchers. Does this Utahn have the solution?

    A new Hydrogen nutrition technology allows a rancher in Utah to turn alfalfa seed into cattle feed within a few days with less than one-tenth of the water used in traditional hay fields. By using this technology, he’s been able to manage the drought in the region and preserve his farmland. While many could be skeptical of the system, the Legislature is planning to study how effective it could be for others in the state.

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  • Why a dry Chilean lagoon matters to the future of the Great Salt Lake

    Burdened by extreme drought, water diversions, and a lack of regulation, Lake Acuelo in Chile dried up. Now, researchers are learning from this slow-moving ecological disaster to help other lakes in trouble, like Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

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  • Reinvent Utah farms to save our soil and Great Salt Lake?

    Farmers in Utah practice no-till farming to improve soil health and water retention amid an ongoing drought.

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  • A River's Right to Flow

    In order to preserve and protect rivers a new movement that grants rivers personhood rights is growing. In places like New Zealand and Oregon, where some of these measures have passed rivers have the right to flow without having to be used as a resource for consumption. In New Mexico, the state engineer approved a water lease submitted by the National Audobon Society. The lease allows about 13 million gallons of water to flow annually solely for its own sake, similiar to personhood rights. The creative approach is one way conservationists are fighting for water preservation.

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  • Despite a Punishing Drought, San Diego Has Water. It Wasn't Easy.

    While much of the state is still facing a severe drought, San Diego has access to plenty of water. Restrictions - like not allowing restaurants to serve water unless it’s asked for and barring residents from watering their yards during the day – have helped. Diversifying where the city gets their water from and investing in water-saving infrastructure, like lining Imperial Valley canals with concrete to prevent water from seeping into the earth, growing desalination capabilities, and adding more capacity to the reservoir, have also helped diversity and save water.

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