Idaho Department of Water Resources

Officials with the Idaho Department of Water Resources are giving water users a heads-up in the Big Lost, Little Lost, and Raft River basins.

The final July curtailment order for Snake River water rights has been issued. Idaho Department of Water Resources has ordered junior groundwater users to join a mitigation plan or face curtailment.

The Idaho Department of Water Resources has identified a shortfall in available water supply, potentially impacting thousands of groundwater users.

There are several on-farm issues the Snake River Sugarbeet Growers Association is working on this legislative session in Boise.  And for Executive Director Samantha Parrott, no issue is bigger than water.   She said there were several challenges last year in the eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer, which put hundreds of thousands of acres of water in jeopardy.  While an agr...

It may be early March, but officials area already worried about water availability this summer, especially in southern portions of Oregon and Idaho. Larry O’Neill with the Oregon Climate Office said the most concerning issue is the total lack of precipitation over the past two water years. He ...

The Idaho Department of Water Resources, has issued a curtailment order to approximately 140 entities that own about 310 ground water rights in the Bellevue Triangle area in the lower Wood River Valley. The curtailment order takes effect on Thursday July 1st ...

Junior water rights holders in some areas of Idaho are potentially going to have less access to water after the state’s Department of Water Resources sent curtailment notices out last month. IDWR Deputy Director Mat Weaver says there have been conversations between senior and junior water rights holders about coming to an agreement for several years. “They’ve go ...