Alex Hager
speaker
418 appearances
66 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 6d ago
Alex Hager’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Experts say that strategy won't work in the long term.
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Policymakers are under pressure to come up with a new system for managing the shrinking river before the current rules for sharing water expire in twenty twenty six.
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For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Lake Powell is about 30% full after more than two decades of omega 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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Colorado River X
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Experts say that strategy won't work in the long term.
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Policymakers are under pressure to come up with a new system for managing the shrinking river before the current rules for sharing water expire in twenty twenty six.
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For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Instead of basing water allocations on a century-old contract, negotiators are pitching a plan to share water according to the amount Mother Nature provides each year.
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It comes after more than a year of standoff and fears that Colorado River states could go to the Supreme Court.
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Tom Bushatsky is Arizona's top water official.
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Bushatsky made it clear that the proposal is in its early stages.
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It's now in the hands of federal water officials.
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They'll run the numbers and figure out exactly how much water the plan would give states.
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For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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