Alex Hager
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418 appearances
66 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5d ago
Alex Hager’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Tara says the seven states that use the Colorado River have to quickly agree on cutbacks to fix this.
That work will be hard, but Tara says it is possible with collaboration.
For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Fort Collins,
Researcher John Fleck at the University of New Mexico says states are falling back into century old rivalries.
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He says they admit that they need to use less of a river that's smaller than it used to be, but they're arguing about who should feel the sting of cutbacks and they're afraid to make compromises.
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The Colorado River supplies water to about forty million people across the southwest.
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It's getting smaller due to climate change.
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States have to agree on a new set of rules for sharing it before the current guidelines expire in twenty twenty six.
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For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Greeley, Colorado.
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Researcher John Fleck at the University of New Mexico says states are falling back into century-old rivalries.
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He says they admit that they need to use less of a river that's smaller than it used to be, but they're arguing about who should feel the sting of cutbacks, and they're afraid to make compromises.
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The Colorado River supplies water to about forty million people across the southwest.
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It's getting smaller due to climate change.
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States have to agree on a new set of rules for sharing it before the current guidelines expire in twenty twenty six.
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For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Greeley, Colorado.
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Lake Powell is about 30% full after more than two decades of a mega drought.
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If the water level drops much lower, it will be below the hydropower turbines inside Glen Canyon Dam.
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They generate electricity for about five million people across seven western states.
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The reservoir faced the same problem a few years ago, and water managers made emergency releases from other reservoirs to prop up Lake Powell until spring runoff came to the rescue.
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