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A Colorado professor is studying how plants grow under solar panels on rooftops. The research highlights the growing green roof movement 鈥� and the challenges cities face in mandating rooftop green space.

The Gila River Indian Community will leave some of its water in Lake Mead, and aims to receive federal funds from the Inflation Reduction Act.

Water agencies in Southern California have agreed to cut back 400,000 acre-feet each year for four years. The deal between agencies supplying cities and farms comes amid federal pressure to reduce use of the shrinking river.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced plans to spend money from the Inflation Reduction Act on water conservation measures in the Colorado River basin. Sources told KUNC that could include buying water from farmers and ranchers to help boost levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

Cities in the arid Southwest are investing in water reuse technology, keeping more water in the system and bolstering drinking supplies in an area hit hard by drought.

A group of seven city utilities in the Colorado River basin says they have plans to conserve more water amid a drought that's straining the region's supply.

U.S. Senators talked about the West鈥檚 drought this week and what more they could be doing to address it. About $8.3 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure package is going to water systems, but as some lawmakers noted, water is drying up faster than some projects can get off the ground.

Colorado River water managers are facing a monumental task. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has asked seven western states to commit to an unprecedented amount of conservation and do it before a deadline later this summer. This comes amid shrinking water levels in the nation's largest reservoirs.

Last November, the 17-member Republican River Water Conservation District board more than doubled the annual fee farmers in the basin pay per irrigated acre. That increase allowed the board to also increase the amount offered to those who chose to stop irrigating. Interest in the program has since gone up, but some feel the fee is unfair.

In the Colorado River basin, agriculture accounts for about 80% of all the water used. As the river鈥檚 supply shrinks, and some farms start to make cutbacks, many are wondering if new technology can help with water conservation. Research suggests that it may not.