-
Silver iodide has been the dominant ingredient for cloud seeding in the West, but it doesn't work so well in warm temperatures.
-
The dispute is over water rights that the federal government holds for livestock on public lands.
-
Nearly every part of Idaho has been grappling with water supply over the past few years due to drought.
-
Recent drought years have meant the benchmarks to reverse the aquifer’s decline aren’t being met.
-
Water managers found June precipitation was strong enough to get by, plus the state changed the methodology for determining who needs to be curtailed and when.
-
The Idaho Department of Water Resources estimates about 900 groundwater rights dating back as far as 1953 could be shut off this year.
-
The Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer provides drinking water for about 300,000 people.
-
It's an improvement, but conditions are still slowly recovering from an extreme drought two years ago.
-
On April 28, Gary Spackman, the director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources, issued a blanket order for all 34 counties south of the Salmon River.
-
Because of low precipitation so far in 2022, drought conditions are likely to expand in Idaho this spring and summer.