As the West grapples with a long-running drought, a new report suggests states across the region can be doing a lot more to improve water efficiency and conservation.

Parts of the Mountain West have been tangled up in long-term drought and it doesn鈥檛 look like it鈥檚 lifting anytime soon.

An environmental group recently released its grades for how states are handling lead contamination in school drinking water 鈥� and half of the states in the Mountain West states are failing.

The United Nations recognized World Water Day on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 as an annual effort to emphasize the water crisis 鈥� a familiar issue to water leaders in the Western U.S.