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KVNF Regional Newscast: June 30, 2025

Water managers in the Upper Colorado River Basin have faced increasing pressure to cut back on the region's water use. Water levels at the Upper Basin's largest reservoir, Lake Powell, are at record lows. Recent water conservation efforts have aimed to prop up the reservoir and avert the shutdown of hydropower generators within.
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Water managers in the Upper Colorado River Basin have faced increasing pressure to cut back on the region's water use. Water levels at the Upper Basin's largest reservoir, Lake Powell, are at record lows. Recent water conservation efforts have aimed to prop up the reservoir and avert the shutdown of hydropower generators within.

A recent study on groundwater in the Colorado River basin is raising concerns AND the Dam that holds back Lake Powell recently had some improvements made.

WATER NEWS: We begin this week with two stories about water in the West. First, a recent study on groundwater in the Colorado River basin is raising concerns AND the Dam that holds back Lake Powell recently had some improvements made. KVNF's Brody Wilson shares both stories.

FEATURE: The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation recently to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Senate still has to vote on the cut of $1.1 billion dollars, that’s less than one-one-hundredth of one percent of the federal budget.

For Rocky Mountain Community Radio, K-H-O-L’s Sophia Boyd-Fliegel sat down with Ruby Calvert, chair of the board for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or CPB, which helps fund National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, NPR and PBS.

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Lisa was born in Texas but grew up on a small farm in Olathe, Colorado and considers herself a “Colorado native after six years of age.” Lisa has nine years experience in news reporting. She began her career as a News Director for a small radio station on Colorado's Eastern Plains. Following her initial radio career, Lisa worked as a staff reporter for The Journal Advocate and South Platte Sentinel in Sterling, Colorado and then returned to the Western Slope as staff reporter for the Delta County Independent.