“The Tecopa bird’s beak is a precious symbol of the vibrancy of desert wetlands, thriving in harsh conditions that many other organisms ... Water levels there have been plummeting for many years due ...

Just 20 of the valley's extended farming families use most of IID's agricultural water supply, largely to grow alfalfa, an investigation by The Desert Sun and ProPublica found. They use between ...

The move comes as farmers of alfalfa and other crops that feed cattle ... concerns including the fate of the tiny, endangered desert pupfish, which thrives on irrigation runoff.