The federal Bureau of Reclamation is gradually opening turbines and bypass tubes at Glen Canyon Dam as part of a government program to restore the Grand Canyon's ecosystem. The river has run at about 8,000 cubic feet per second this fall but will ramp up to 42,300 cubic feet for 24 hours from Monday night into Tuesday, and the river will run high for five days.

Government officials from the United States and Mexico have set a Tuesday date in San Diego to sign a landmark agreement to share Colorado River water during times of drought and surplus. A time and place for the announcement weren’t immediately made public. But International Boundary and Water Commission official Gustavo Ramirez on Friday confirmed the day and place.

Federal, state and tribal officials gathered Saturday in western New Mexico to break ground on the massive Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. The 280-mile, $1 billion pipeline project will serve more than 43 Navajo communities in New Mexico and Arizona, the city of Gallup and a portion of the Jicarilla Apache Nation in northern New Mexico.

Any way you slice it, the Colorado River simply can’t provide enough water on a regular basis to meet all the demands, ranging from municipal use to agriculture and sustaining healthy ecosystems for endangered native fish and non-native species important for recreation.

Low season flows into Lake Powell have been near normal in recent weeks, with the Colorado River delivering about 356,000 acre feet (99 percent of average) during January, leaving the reservoir about 63 feet below full pool.

To help people learn about the history of major water projects, the National Park Service has created an online itinerary,loaded with essays, images, information, and maps, is available at www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/ReclamationDams

A House of Representatives panel has met to learn more about removing government regulations in order to update water-storage infrastructure. The Water and Power Subcommittee spoke Tuesday with constituents from the West to decide whether removing government regulations on water-storage infrastructure would be helpful. U.S. Rep.

After 34 years of public service, Rick Ehat, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Program Manager for the Navajo San Juan Settlement Implementation Project in Arizona and New Mexico, retired at the end of December.