Plants need water, and people aren’t always around to provide it. I realized this fact when a wildfire engulfed my rural ...

Tygh Redfield stands in front of a pivot irrigation system he helped install on a field he owns near his home in Cloverdale. Redfield said he switched to the pivot system after piping began on the ...

Farmers near Meeker, in northwestern Colorado, have been diverting water from the White River to flood their fields for irrigation for more than 100 years. Using a series of irrigation ditches, they ...

Evanston, Wyoming • Adrian Hunolt and his family run a cattle ranch on 8,500 acres along a bend in the Bear River, just a few miles from its headwaters in the Uinta Mountains. The river is the ...

Yellowstone County and irrigation districts are looking to federal officials for help to fix canals seriously damaged in flooding last week. Commissioners pressed representatives from the three ...

GILBERT — When Peggie Cornwell learned last month that the $10 monthly fee for "flood irrigation" would be going up, her reaction was fairly straightforward. "We were a little surprised when we got ...