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Montana will need an extremely wet spring to avoid widespread drought once summer arrives. Scientists are skeptical that the needed moisture will arrive.
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A pandemic-era program that helped low-income people keep up with their water and sewer bills is running out of funding.
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After years of tribes calling on the U.S. and Canada to do something about selenium pollution flowing into Montana, the two governments have struck a deal. An international body will make recommendations on how to settle the boundary-water dispute.
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The Blackfeet Nation is beginning to build infrastructure to improve access to clean water.
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Drought conditions are getting worse across much of Montana and it’s going to take above-normal springtime snow and rain to break out of the spiral.
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January’s weather did little to improve Montana’s record low snowpack. It’s going to take a major change in the weather to improve conditions.
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Federal regulators last week said the Salish Kootenai Dam didn’t draw too much water out of Flathead Lake last summer. Some residents blamed the dam operator for the lake's historically low water levels.
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Water is running in Browning, but should still be boiled for now, Blackfeet Water Director K. Webb Galbreath says. Firefighters Wednesday night quickly knocked down a blaze in the facility housing the Missoula Smokejumper Base.
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Montana’s updated Drought Management Plan is now complete. Three years in the making, its ambitious goal is to build drought resilience across this semi-arid state. The plan’s authors describe it as a new way to proactively think about, respond and adapt to drought.
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Federal officials from the U.S. and Canada plan to meet with Montana and British Columbia tribes over coal mining pollution. Selenium has for years flowed from B.C. coal mines into the transboundary Lake Koocanusa.